Towards noun-driven parsing

Natural language understanding systems are increasingly needed for intuitive, efficient interaction with large information stores. The object-centered nature of these stores - that they encode states, attributes, and relationships of objects - may not be best served by the current verb-driven syntactic paradigm. We develop a highly-parallelizable noun-driven syntax in response, and evaluate its performance against that of other syntactic paradigms through a series of search queries rooted in basic processing operations.