Writing a Natural Language Data Base System
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 144-149.
Abstract
We present a model for processing English requests for information from a relational data base. The model has as its main steps (a) locating semantic constituents of a request; (b) matching these constituents against larger templates called concept case frames; (c) filling in the concept case frame using information from the user's request, from the dialogue context and from the user's responses to questions posed by the system; and (d) generating a formal data base query using the collected information. Methods are suggested for constructing the components of such a natural language processing system for an arbitrary relational data base. The model has been applied to a large data base of aircraft flight and maintenance data to generate a system called PLANES; examples are drawn from this system.
@inproceedings{ijcai1977p31,
title = {Writing a Natural Language Data Base System},
author = {Waltz, David L. and Goodman, Bradley A.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-77}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Raj Reddy},
pages = {144--149},
year = {1977},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/31},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Writing a Natural Language Data Base System AU - Waltz, David L. AU - Goodman, Bradley A. T2 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-77 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1977 SP - 144 EP - 149 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/31 ER -Copied
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