Natural language processing applied to engineering notes

This paper discusses a software package that converts engineering notes into a frame/slot representation for use by a process planning expert system.
linguistics
rule-based systems
enterprise applications
Published

December 29, 1989

Citation

James J. Tyhurst 1986. “Natural language processing applied to engineering notes”. Ultratech Artificial Intelligence Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1), Long Beach, California. pp. 2-199 to 2-211.

References

PDF document: JimTyhurst-1986-NLP-applied-to-engineering-notes.pdf

Proceedings indexed in: OCLC WorldCat.

Abstract

Engineering notes are placed on design drawings in order to convey requirements or instructions to the manufacturing organization. Therefore, process planning expert systems must interpret these notes which are written in a technical form of English. This paper discusses a software package which converts standardized notes into a frame/slot representation. This representation is used by the HICLASSTM Software System, an automated process planning expert system. Standardized notes are restricted to the fixed subset of English commonly used on design drawings. Standardization provides a mechanism for conveying manufacturing producibility feedback early in the design cycle.