A computer method is disclosed for determining predicate-argument structures in input prose sentences of English. The input sentence, in the form of a string of words separated by blanks, is first analyzed (parsed) by a rule component that has access only to morphological and syntactic information about...http://www.google.de/patents/US5146406?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5146406 - Computer method for identifying predicate-argument structures in natural language text