关键词: 自然语言理解, 全信息理论, 规则方法, 统计方法, 全信息自然语言理解方法论

Abstract: The “Comprehensive Information Based Methodology forNatural Language Understanding” presented in the paper is an application of the Comprehensive Information(CI) Theory, which was established by the author of the paper years ago formeeting the needs in artificial intelligence research. Different from other works in the field of natural language processing, the major features of the methodology presented in the paper include two folds. Firstly, instead of the syntacticor/and semantic information is used, all components of the comprehensive information are fully utilized for natural language understanding. Secondly, instead of using one or another approach preferably, both the rule-based approach and the statistics-based approach have been complementarily integrated. The successesof the research projects guided by the methodology and completed last few yearsprove the methodology promising.

Key words: natural language understanding, comprehensive information theory, rule-based approach, statistical approach, CI-basedmethodology for natural language understanding