Concept Extraction

The panel on concept extraction from natural language text defined a variety of different views on the problem at issue. First, we considered what would be the propert ies of a very powerful natural language understanding system which would serve as an ultimate model for our deliberations, but was clearly not achievable within the f ive-year time frame specified as the primary area of interest to the Navy for the purposes of this workshop. However , it could serve as a goal toward which progress could be made in a series of approximations, beginning within the next five years and extending beyond.