Proceedings of the 1971 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Storage and Retrieval - SIGIR '71 1971
DOI: 10.1145/511285.511290
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The converse natural language data management system

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of research in progress in which the principal aim is the achievement of more natural and expressive modes of online communication with complexly structured data bases.A natural-language compiler has been constructed that accepts sentences in a userextendable English subset, produces surface and deep-structure syntactic analyses, and uses a network of concepts to construct semantic interpretations formalized as computable procedures. The procedures are evaluated by a data manage… Show more

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“…It can also be a high level language which is then translated into the set of basic data functions. Recent works (Kellogg 1971, Dostert and Thompson 1972, Lefkovitz 1969, and Codd 1971 favor the latter approach of using natural language or other high-level retrieval languages for the obvious reason that it is easier for the user to use. However, the price that has to be paid is the inefficiency introduced by many levels of language mapping from the high-level retrieval language to the machine language level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It can also be a high level language which is then translated into the set of basic data functions. Recent works (Kellogg 1971, Dostert and Thompson 1972, Lefkovitz 1969, and Codd 1971 favor the latter approach of using natural language or other high-level retrieval languages for the obvious reason that it is easier for the user to use. However, the price that has to be paid is the inefficiency introduced by many levels of language mapping from the high-level retrieval language to the machine language level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%