Homer: Natural Language Understanding

Description

• Homer's architecture incorporates a natural language parser and semantic interpreter system
• Natural language sentences are converted using state transition semantics in order for the parsed language to be used for planning
• The world is described in terms of primitive relations, analogous to a semantic alphabet in that complex meanings can be composed from them
• The functional goals for natural language understanding are limited, one is expected to talk to Homer as one would talk to a young child