Dream Content Scanning without Coding
Bernhard Haller
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1977 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1977.45.1.239 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Key points | Describes a system that retrieves dream reports via semantic relations without manual coding, with examples and noted linguistic limitations. |
Abstract
An efficient system is described which allows the retrieval from dreams in response to certain questions. No coding is necessary, as the computer works with a large thesaurus containing all semantic relations. For each chosen question word it is possible to find automatically all dreams containing related words (synonyms, subnotions, etc.) and to print them in the output list. Four examples are given and some limitations due to linguistic difficulties discussed.
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