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 | | Each component has its semantic information represented by one or more semantic "classes"; this is different from syntactic types such as noun, verb, noun phrase, etc. The most basic semantic classes are "object", "action", "attribute", etc., and more specific classes are derived from them with the IS_A relation as in semantic network theory. |
 | | Semantic classes also help the computer arrange a good word order when generating a target language sentence, and match unclassified argument values with the correct macro arguments. |
 | | The computer will find the semantic class "cat" for the word "cat", and then locate its class member "drink" (or "drink" may be the class member of a parent class of "cat" such as "animal") which is a verbal macro. |
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