Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Our goal is the complete integration of natural language understanding with the rest of cognition. Two mechanisms that we have developed and implemented to achieve this goal are: (l) the Direct Memory Access Parsing (DMAP) algorithm, based on the notion of lexically-guided memory search and concept refinement, and (2) an inference-triggering process based on the notion of concept refinement failures. Together, these two mechanisms form a tightly-integrated system of parsing and inferencing, with no artificial boundaries between them.