Linguistic String Project (LSP)

Since 1965 the Linguistic String Project (Prof. Sager and colleagues) at New York University has engaged in Natural Language Processing research. Major results include

a parser and programming language for natural language grammars [#1, #12 on appended selected bibliography],
a comprehensive computer grammar of English [#34],
sublanguage methodology [#11, #13, #28],
a Medical Language Processor (LSP-MLP) to convert narrative clinical documents to a semantic representation, operative for English, French and German [#33, #65, ,#82],
a system of lexical categories now realized in the COMLEX dictionary, and syntactic-sublanguage medical lexicons, primarily in English and French.

Selected LSP Publications

[#1] Sager, N. (1967). Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language. Advances in Computer 8, 153-188. Academic Press, NY.

[#11] Sager, N. (1975). Sublanguage Grammars in Science Information Processing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 26, 10-16.

[#12] Sager, N., and Grishman, R. (1975). The Restriction Language for Computer Grammars of Natural Language. Communications of the ACM18, 390-400.

[#13] Hirschman, L., Grishman, R., and Sager, N. (1975). Grammatically-Based Automatic Word Class Formation. Information Processing and Management11, 39-57.

[#33] Hirschman, L., and Sager, N. (1982). Automatic Information Formatting of a Medical Sublanguage. Sublanguage: Studies of Language in Restricted Semantic Domains (R. Kittredge and J. Lehrberger, eds.). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 27-80.

[#34] Sager, N. (1981). Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammar of English and Its Applications. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.

[#65] Sager, N., Friedman, C., Lyman, M.S., MD, and members of the Linguistic String Project (1987). Medical Language Processing: Computer Management of Narrative Data. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.

[#82] Sager, N., Lyman, M.S., Bucknall, C., Nhan, N.T., Tick, L.J., (1994) Natural Language Processing and the Representation of Clinical Data, Journal of American Medical Informatics Society, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 142-160.