Understanding Natural Language Instructions: The Case of Purpose Clauses

This paper presents an analysis of purpose clauses in the context of instruction understanding. Such analysis shows that goals affect the interpretation and / or execution of actions, lends support to the proposal of using generation and enablement to model relations between actions, and sheds light on some inference processes necessary to interpret purpose clauses.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Barbara Di Eugenio
• Keywords: ACL 1992, ACL 2007, Instruction Understanding, Purpose Clauses, Such Analysis