ABSTRACT
The paper discusses a computer natural language system called “HWIM”, which accepts either typed or spoken inputs and produces both typed and spoken responses. There are three major purposes of the paper: (1) to present HWIM as an example of a relatively complete language system in which one can see how the many components of language processing interact, (2) to describe technical problems that arose during HWIM’s development which are illustrative of major concerns of Artificial Intelligence research, and (3) to discuss the structure of HWIM as a model for discourse processing.
