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title: "Natural Language and Exploration of an Information Space: The ALFresco Interactive System"
authors:
  - "Oliviero Stock"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/143"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0143.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1991
pages: "972-977"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Natural Language and Exploration of an Information Space: The ALFresco Interactive System

Oliviero Stock

*Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 972-977.

## 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.