Noun-Phrase Model and Natural Query Language

Sibuya, Masaaki; Fujisaki, Tetsunosuke; Takao, Y.

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“…There is nothing extraordinary about a parsing process that produces all possible parses; many natural language interfaces are similar to Cleopatra in this respect [37,48,60,67], although it is usually not indicated in their published descriptions whether these systems use parallelism or backtracking internally.…”

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A Natural Language Interface for Computer-Aided Design

Samad

1986

The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

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A Natural Language Interface for Computer-Aided Design

Samad

1986

The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

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“…An independent data base management system (DBMS) was required for the construction of the USL system, making it possible to benefit from the work done in data base research. To maintain a well-defined interface, input sentences were translated into the formal data manipulation language of the DBMS (a similar approach was also taken by Mylopoulos et al [2], Sacerdoti [3], Waltz et al [4], and Sibuya et al [5]).…”

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Interpretation of Natural Language in an Information System

Lehmann

1978

IBM J. Res. & Dev.

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This paper discusses some of the linguistic problems encountered during the development of the User Specialty Languages (USL) system, an information system that accepts a subset of German or English as input for query, analysis, and updating of data. The system is regarded as a model for portions of natural language that are relevant to interactions with a data base. The model provides insight into the functioning of language and the linguistic behavior of users who must communicate with a machine in order to obtain information. The aim of application independence made it necessary to approach many problems from a different angle than in most comparable systems. Rather than a full treatment of the linguistic capacity of the system, details of phenomena such as time handling, coordination, quantification, and possessive pronouns are presented. The solutions that have been implemented are described, and open questions are pointed out. Temporal expressions A comparison with Bruce's CHRONOS system [18] shows that despite his sophisticated model of time, many relatively simple but essential aspects have not been addressed. Two problems are dis-Copyright 1978 by International Business Machines Corporation. Copying is permitted without payment of royalty provided that (1) each reproduction is done without alteration and (2) the Journal reference and IBM copyright notice are included on the first page. The title 560 and abstract may be used without further permission in computer-based and other information-service systems. Permission to republish other excerpts should be obtained from the Editor. n. LEHMANN

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Online Search Interface Design

Vickery

1993

Journal of Documentation

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There is a huge amount of information and data stored in publicly available online databases that consist of large text files accessed by Boolean search techniques. It is widely held that less use is made of these databases than could or should be the case, and that one reason for this is that potential users find it difficult to identify which databases to search, to use the various command languages of the hosts and to construct the Boolean search statements required. This reasoning has stimulated a considerable amount of exploration and development work on the construction of search interfaces, to aid the inexperienced user to gain effective access to these databases. The aim of our paper is to review aspects of the design of such interfaces: to indicate the requirements that must be met if maximum aid is to be offered to the inexperienced searcher; to spell out the knowledge that must be incorporated in an interface if such aid is to be given; to describe some of the solutions that have been implemented in experimental and operational interfaces; and to discuss some of the problems encountered. The paper closes with an extensive bibliography of references relevant to online search aids, going well beyond the items explicitly mentioned in the text. An index to software appears after the bibliography at the end of the paper.

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Noun-Phrase Model and Natural Query Language

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

A Natural Language Interface for Computer-Aided Design

A Natural Language Interface for Computer-Aided Design

Interpretation of Natural Language in an Information System

Online Search Interface Design

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