[dbigham]

Hi all,

During the summer of 2008 I became interested in the challenge of parsing natural language: More specifically, how to transform a question or command into a form that more directly encodes its meaning.

Rather than research what others had done, I resorted to using my imagination. Here's what I came up with:

1. Create a system/syntax for representing information about the world. (Based on entities and relationships)

2. Create a system for transforming a sentence written in natural language into that syntax for representing information about the world.

Each "transformation" has a left side and a right side, etc.

More details are here:

http://www.platoai.com/theory.htm

Does anyone know, in terms of linguistics, what "area" this type of research fits into?  Or could anyone point me to other similar/related ideas?

Thanks!
Daniel