{"pk":32974,"title":"KA : Situating Natural Language Understanding in Design Problem Solving","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the interaction between linguistic and ncn-linguistic processes by considering the role of functional reasoning in understanding design specifications written in natural language. W e desaibe KA , an experimental modelbased interpretation and design system which understands English language descriptions of the design problems it solves, and examine whether KA's problem-solving amiabilities help i) ascertain the relevance of ambiguous design ^lecifications and ii) identify unspecified relations between design requirements. Our results demonstrate that augmenting language processing with the ability to reason about function along the lines suggested in K A provides effective solutions to these problems in particular as well as to other problems in natural language understanding.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wt7553n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Justin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Peterson","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":"Ashok","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Kurt","middle_name":"","last_name":"Eiselt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1994-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32974/galley/24035/download/"}]}