... Semantic Information Preprocessing
for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
Milan Mosny
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC VhA ... the next
section.
contains a dictionary of atomic formulas that spec-
ifies which input atomic formulas can be translated
into which output atomic formulas.
Existential equivalences in KLDT's ... restrictions.
1 Introduction
An ap...
... on feature information associated
with the lexical items in the two NP's,
application-specific precyclic transformations can
be formulated to map this underlying structure into
any of ... organ-
izations as that in which the total number of
parking lots and/or parking spaces is stored for
each wardblock, and
that
in which such totals are
stored for each splitblock which...
... structures for an analyst's attention.
5. providing access to a variety of database
query options to allow an analyst to select
inputs of potential interest, for example, those
which took ... A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems
Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger, Dongdong Chen
Unisys Corporation
2476 Swedesford R...
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detailed attributive information is included. For
entities that are very different, only generic
class information is included. A combination of
this information is included for entities falling ...
considered for this system were among those shown
to be needed in a natural language database
system.
Implementation of the TEXT system for natural
language generati...
... the Open
Directory to ensure that a diverse range of top-
ics is included in the corpus. A process of text
cleaning transforms the HTML text into a form
useable by most NLP systems – tokenised words,
one ... allows us to create
a topic-diverse collection of pages. Before the di-
rectory can be use, we had to address several cov-
erage skews. Some topics have many more links
in the Open...
...
For the sign (8) to play a communicative role, one ad-
ditional kind of information is needed. Typically, heads
give information about relation.~, while complements give
information about the ... systems, which
we regard for theoretical purposes as thinking organisms,
(Frege referred to his own logical formalism,
Begriffsschrift,
an a "formula language for pure th...
... necessary to be aware that
the grammatical component must be assumed
to be an integrated part of a whole natural
language system (in particular in models for
performing dialogs) in order to realize ... knowledge
representation for natural language 10
general". Currently, there exist only
approximate solutions to this problem for
example the use of canonical lo...
... used to circumvent many of the areas where it is
very hard to give computers the intelligence and knowledge to perform as
well as humans. In short, the way forward for natural language interfaces ...
encodes a request for intormation of; action, and that their job is tO decode
the request, retrieve the information, or perform the action, and provide
appropriate output...