A Classification of Sentences Used in Natural Language Processing in the Military Services

In this report, concepts from cognitive psychology are applied to the problems of developing a taxonomic system for classifying sentences used in natural language processing in the military services. The report first presents a conception of the characteristics of cognitive psychology that are related to the goal-oriented, top-down, technical, pragmatic, idiomatic, and sometimes non-grammatical nature of language processing in the military services. The paper then focuses on the central importance of the role of pragmatics and inferential analyses when processing language in stressful, goal-oriented military situations. The paper concludes with a taxonomy of sentences that has been derived from this cognitive conception of natural language processing in the military services.