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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 33 , Issue 11 (November 1990) table of contents

Pages: 88 - 97

Year of Publication: 1990

ISSN:0001-0782

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P. S. Jacobs	GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
Lisa F. Rau	GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The future of natural language text processing is examined in the SCISOR prototype. Drawing on artificial intelligence techniques, and applying them to financial news items, this powerful tool illustrates some of the future benefits of natural language analysis through a combination of bottom-up and top-down processing.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
Subjects: Linguistic processing

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

I. Computing Methodologies
I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I.2.7 Natural Language Processing
Subjects: Text analysis

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Performance

REVIEW

"Richard L. Frautschi : Reviewer"

SCISOR (System for Conceptual Information Summarization, Organization and Retrieval) automates text analyses and question-responses in constrained subject areas. At present, it scans an online financial news service (Dow Jones) for stories abo more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

P. S. Jacobs: colleagues

Lisa F. Rau: colleagues

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