{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Experience with ROBOT in 12 Commercial, Natural Language Data Base Query Applications","authors":[{"name":"Larry R. Harris","slug":"larry-r-harris","given":"Larry R.","family":"Harris","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"£ne aoility to unaerstand ~atural Language has long been a goal of Artificial Intelligence rteaearch, and it is still far from being solved. rlowever, in toe early l~lv's the AI research techniques reached a point whereby certain a~plications became feasible for toe first time. Since that time, several ststems sucn as PLANES[!], LIFER[2], and ROBOT[3,4,S] have been built tnat nave oemonatrated tnat the current state of the art is sufficient for quite ~ooa natural lan~uage aata uase ~uery. ~ne i~plementation of the R030l' system has been ~eared for high performance and installaoility in actual real world environments. As sucn, it offers the AI researco com~unity aome inai~ht into toe aifficulties encountered when putting t~e c~rrenc AI tecnnolo~y in tne nands of people in the real world. This paper u1sc~sses cne unex~ecteo lin~uistic and semantic difficulties encountered in the 1~ co.n .•lercial applications to wnicn t<Jao ·r has been applied during the last year","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/79","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0079.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/79.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/79","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":79,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}