{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A General Semantic Analyser for Data Base Access","authors":[{"name":"Branimir Boguraev","slug":"branimir-boguraev","given":"Branimir","family":"Boguraev","affiliation":""},{"name":"Karen Sparck Jones","slug":"karen-sparck-jones","given":"Karen Sparck","family":"Jones","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The paper discusses the design principles and current status of a natural language front end for access to data bases. This is based on the use, first, of a semantically-oriented question analyser exploiting general, language-wide semantic categories and patterns, rather than data basespecific ones; and, second, of a data base-oriented translation component for obtaining search specifications from the meaning representations for quest ions derived by the analyser • This approach is motivated by the desire to reduce the effort of providing data base-specific material for the front end, by the. belief that a general analyser is well sui ted to the \"casual\" data base user , and by the assumption that the rich semantic apparatus used will be both adequate as a means of analysis and appropriate as a tool for linking the characterisations of input and data language items. The paper describes this approach in more detail, with emphasis on the existing, tested, analyser.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/86","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0086.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/86.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/86","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language Applications","track":"Natural Language Applications","number":86,"pages":{"first":443,"last":444},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}