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Abstract:
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In this paper, the author attempts to enlist some of the basic bottlenecks that pose challenges
while designing the automation of any natural language understanding system. In the
beginning, some background material on the study of language and an overview of linguistics
is presented for the benefit of the reader who might be new to the fields of artificial intelligence
and cognitive science. Natural language systems are also discussed briefly so as to give a
better insight into the processing of natural languages by computer systems. Then the
three major threats or challenges of natural language processing, viz. knowledge acquisition
from natural language; interaction with multiple underlying systems; and partial
understanding of multi-sentence and fragments of language are discussed. |