Language Processing using Lkit developed by S.Lynch

The requirement for this work is to produce a technical paper explaining how some aspect of semantically-based language processing can be achieved in the context of a system which aims to infer appropriate meanings for non-trivial sentence (see example sentence series below). Note that your paper should explain how your work fits in to a wider context of language processing.

Any work must include an element of software development either (i) in Clojure (ii) in Lisp, or (iii) using LKit. Examples of acceptable work include...

1. writing a lexicon and grammar for LKit to process sentences like those below;
2. software to perform event sequence analysis;
3. software to fit case frames into primitive verbs and perform appropriate inference;
4. writing a parser capable of accepting non-trivial language rules.

example series 1

John kicked the ball in the afternoon
John kicked the ball in the park
John kicked the ball in the pond
John kicked the ball in the park in the afternoon

example series 2

Sue went to London in the morning
Sue went to London in/on the bus
Sue went to London in the winter
Sue went to London in bad mood

example series 3

We travelled to Paris in the summer
We travelled to Paris on holiday
We travelled to Paris on Eurostar

#deliverables The general documentation for deliverables and success criteria applies to this work. More specifically/in addition, your documentation should include...

1. outline of example & the problem - 10%
2. specification & purpose of lexical tags & case frames - 15%
3. lexicon entries & grammar rules - 40%
4. verb forms and further processing - 25%
5. analysis and critique - 10%