#14414This method of using expectations to aid the understanding of scruffy texts has been incorporated into a working computer program called NOMAD, which understands scruffytexts in the domain of Navy messages.
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understands scruffy
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of Navy messages . This article deals
#14417This method of using expectations to aid the understanding of scruffy texts has been incorporated into a working computer program called NOMAD, which understands scruffy texts in thedomain of Navy messages.
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#14245Most large text-understanding systems have been designed under the assumption that theinput text will be in reasonably neat form, e.g., newspaper stories and other edited texts.
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#14345Thesesyntactic and semantic expectations can be used to figure out unknown words from context, constrain the possible word-senses of words with multiple meanings (ambiguity), fill in missing words (ellipsis), and resolve referents (anaphora).