John R. Josephson, Christopher Bailey-Kellogg, Kevin Lenzo
Generic Software for Language Understanding:
a design based on layered abduction
Abstract:This report describes the design of LLU(Layered Language Understander). LLU is application--
building software (a "shell") specialized for natural language processing, but designed to be
independent of any particular language or level of processing (syllables, words, sentences etc.). It
is a specialization of a more general generic abduction mechanism with support for layered
abduction and for handling temporally-bounded hypotheses. It is possible that it is general
enough for vision or other sensory modalities.