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title: "Interactive Disambiguation of Natural Language Input: a Methodology and Two Implementatioons for French and English"
authors:
  - "Hervé Blanchon"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/151"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0151.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "1042-1048"
track: "Natural-language Processing and Graphical Presentation"
keywords:
---

# Interactive Disambiguation of Natural Language Input: a Methodology and Two Implementatioons for French and English

Hervé Blanchon

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1042-1048.

## Abstract

As natural language is highly ambiguous even in restricted domains, interactive disambiguation is seen as a necessity for achieving more robust and user-friendly interactive systems, face-to-face translation systems and Dialogue-Based Machine Translation systems. We have proposed a methodology which distinguishes between two parts in a disambiguation module: an engine (language- and application-independent) and a lingware (language- and application-dependent). The engine is, thus, to be reused in the design of any disambiguation module. This paper presents the current state of our work, that is: an engine that has been used to design two interactive disambiguation modules, for French, and English.