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  <Title>NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE: A SIMULATIVE APPROACH</Title>
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5. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the paper the general design of ALICE has been presented and an ilustration of the parser used by the system has been given. The main ideas on which such an attempt is grounded are: - to exploit all of the possible knowledge to aid the system in the parsing activity, - to parallelize the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic analysis, the determination of referents, quantification, etc, and to pursue them as soon as enough information has been gathered; - to provide through the use of the production system formalism, an integrate framework into which all the problems posed by the language understanding activity could be dealt with.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A prototype reduced version of the system, implemented in FLISP under NOS 2.2 on a control Data Cyber 170, is currently running at the University of Trieste and shows the feasibility of this approach. A full system implementation in Common LISP is under development.</Paragraph>
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