Describe how the Markov models of Section 15.4 might be combined with the more symbolic approach to understanding language of Section 15.1−15.3. Describe how the stochastic models could be combined with traditional knowledge-based systems, Chapter 8.

Data from section 15.4

In Section 15.1 we discussed a natural decomposition of sentence structures that supported language understanding. In Sections 15.2 and 15.3 we noted that the semantic and knowl- edge intensive aspects of language could be supported by word and sentence-level repre- sentational structures. In this section we introduce stochastic tools that support, at these same levels, pattern based analysis of structures enabling language comprehension.