{"pk":31755,"title":"KA: Integrating Natural language Processing and Problem Solving","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Traditional Cognitive Science has studied various\ncognitive components in isolation. Our project at-\ntempts to alleviate some of the problems with this\nseparation by focusing on the role of problem solv-\ning in language comprehension. Specifically, the\nKA project integrates six areas of current investi-\ngation in Cognitive Science: knowledge represen-\ntation, m e m o r y organization, language compre-\nhension, knowledge acquisition, problem solving,\nand control architectures. W e are developing a\nmodel-based text interpretation and knowledge ac-\nquisition system which, when completed, will be\nable to read and interpret descriptions of physical\ndevices, construct models of the devices, and use\nthe acquired models to solve novel design prob-\nlems. This paper presents three areas in which we\nuse problem solving to constrain natural language\nunderstanding: (1) the use of mental models as\na foundation for both problem solving and natu-\nral language understanding, (2) the use of design\nexperience to influence the understanding process,\nand (3) the use of the design process to establish\nthe cost of linguistic decisions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k02d1n7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeff","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pittges","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Kurt","middle_name":"","last_name":"Eiselt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Ashok","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Andres","middle_name":"Gomez","last_name":"de Silva Garza","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Kavi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mahesh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Justin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Peterson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31755/galley/22823/download/"}]}