Overview Project Goals –Represent a sentence in a parse tree –Use parses in tree to search another tree containing ontology of project management deliverables –Output path of possible dependencies in project

Part One Representing a Sentence in the Parse Tree

Architecture

94 High Level Rule: Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase = Sentence

HIGH LEVEL DIAGRAM SENTENCE PARSE TREE

sentence Grammar rule Grammar rule has instances An instance can be one of the following: Noun phrase Verb phrase Prep phrase (Relative clause)

Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase = SENTENCE Sentence Grammar rule Parts of speech Nouns(proper name, digit) Verbs Adjectives(articles) Adverbs(conjunction) Pronouns Prepositions

Noun PhraseVerb Phrase Prepositional Phrase PronounVerbPreposition NounAdjective Proper NameAdverb Article Digit Phrase Contents

Example Parse of Sentence: The project plan always includes deliverables. The = Adjective Article Project = NounNoun Phrase Plan = Noun Always = Adverb Includes = Verb Verb Phrase Deliverables= Noun

Part Two Sentence parses are used to search through project management ontology represented by a semantic network