摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for natural language parsing includes the steps of a) retrieving an input string (62); b) performing a dictionary look-up for each word in the input string to form a correspondence between each word and a dictionary entry in the dictionary (64), the dictionary entry providing lexical features of the word; c) processing the words in the input string beginning with a last word in the input string and continuing toward the first word in the input string; d) the processing of the words in the input string including the steps of associating a selected word in the input string with a word located to the left of the selected word in the input string to form a word phrase, said association performed according to predetermined selection restriction rules (66); and e) repeating processing the words in the input string, until all words of the input string have been processed (72).</p> |