Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System

Martin, Paul A.; Appelt, Douglas E.; Pereira, Fernando C. N.

Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System

Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, Fernando C. N. Pereira

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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 573-580.

Abstract

hi s pap er desc ribes the design of a transportable natural langu age (NL) interface to databases and the co nst raints that transportability places on each compone nt of such a system. By a transportable NL syst em, we m ea n an NL processing system that is con st ructed so that a domain expert (rather than an AI or linguistics expert) can move the system to a new app li cat ion domain. After discussing the general problems presented by transportability, this pap er descr ibes TEAM (an acronym for Transportable English database Access Medium), a demonstratable prototype of suc h a system. The discussion of TEAM shows how domain-independent and domain-dependent information ca n be separated in the differe nt components of a NL inter face system, and presents one method of obtaining domain-speci fi c information from a domain expert.

Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. 1983. Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-83. IJCAI, 573–580. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/136

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