{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Natural Language and Exploration of an Information Space: The ALFresco Interactive System","authors":[{"name":"Oliviero Stock","slug":"oliviero-stock","given":"Oliviero","family":"Stock","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In traditional natural language systems, the channel of communication between the user and the system was a narrow and constraining device. In many areas natural language-based information access requires the possibility for the user of exploring the domain and a system's comfortable habitability. The present work presents a rationale for building intelligent interfaces that combine natural language and hypermedia as new means for human-computer interaction and in particular gives an outline of a prototype of this kind, built for the exploration of Italian frescoes: the ALFresco interactive system.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/143","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0143.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/143.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/bibtex/143","volume":{"slug":"1991","title":"Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1991","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/","year":1991,"location":"Sydney, New South Wales, Australia","dates":"24-30 August 1991","editors":"John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":143,"pages":{"first":972,"last":977},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}