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Described an interactive English-language system that combined syntactic analysis, semantic interpretation, inference and a procedural model of a constrained blocks-world domain.
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The record is Winograd's sole-author 1972 Cognitive Psychology article. It concerns a restricted modeled world and does not establish unrestricted language understanding or absorb every contributor to SHRDLU, dialogue systems or later natural-language processing.
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Terry Winograd
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Winograd: understanding natural language
Described an interactive English-language system that combined syntactic analysis, semantic interpretation, inference and a procedural model of a constrained blocks-world domain.
Scientific scope
The record is Winograd's sole-author 1972 Cognitive Psychology article. It concerns a restricted modeled world and does not establish unrestricted language understanding or absorb every contributor to SHRDLU, dialogue systems or later natural-language processing.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Terry Winograd
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.