University of Houston

There have been a lot of research on and applications build based on specific areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The objective of my research is to examine the link between knowledge in the real world and the grammar of a natural language. The human brain has the capability of learning a language and as a result, the world has hundreds of languages. This variety in languages shows that the knowledge needed to learn a language is universal, regardless of the specific language. For example, a majority of languages form sentences using a subject/verb construction.

The research will look at creating an application that provides a system with the tools necessary to learn and use a new language. In other words, the system is not learning a specific language; it is learning important knowledge about all languages. This includes the creation of a new component based grammar along with a semantic representation that allows for better understanding of phrases. This application is being developed as the communication agent for an existing knowledge system known as A Learning Program System or ALPS.