Winograd: understanding natural language

What changed

Integrated syntax, semantics, inference and action in a restricted blocks-world dialogue system.

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.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.

Contributors

• Terry Winograd · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Publisher page for Understanding Natural Language
• Open British National Bibliography record for Winograd work

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