Over six months, conclusions included'This innovative approach has many benefits, particularly in areas which have proven very troublesome for existing natural language processing systems . . . . . . such as Word boundary identification, Phrase structure or constituent identification, Word sense disambiguation, context tracking and Producing text '.
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In 2014, The University of Sydney conducted an external audit of Ball's language understanding system based on Patom Theory, stating'The core of the approach is its bidirectional system of pattern matching which matches combinations of words with phrase structures and then with logical structures and individual word sense meanings, or vice versa to generate words from meanings.