... toNaturalLanguage
Database Interfacing.
Ph.D. Thesis, Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Semantic Information Preprocessing
for NaturalLanguageInterfacesto Databases ...
lectional restrictions to parsers in natural
language interfaces (NLIs) to databases by
extracting the selectional restrictions from
semantic descriptions of those NLIs. Au-
tomating the process ... Introduction
An approach is described for supplying selectional
restrictions to parsers in naturallanguageinterfaces
(NLIs) to databases. The work is based on Linguis-
tic Domain Theories (LDTs) (Rayner,...
... EVALUATION OF NATURALLANGUAGEINTERFACESTO DATABASE SYSTEMS:
A PANEL DISCUSSION
Norman K. Sondheimer, Chair
Sperry Univac
Blue Bell, PA
For a naturallanguage access to database
system to be ... like for natural
language access to database? Under this
point, what niches look most promising for
natural language interfaces? What standards
should he set for naturallanguage systems
performance? ...
Recently, this has begun to change. In the
last several years, many of the current
generation of naturallanguage access to
database systems have been subject to
laboratory or field testing....
... display and three-button mouse on these
systems.
LANGUAGE AS A KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING TOOL
The major bottlenecks in building knowledge based sys-
tems have proven to be related to the definition ... scientists to carry out this ver-
bal elicitation task. The major issue is how to gee started
defining the forms into which knowledge is to be cast.
We have found it an effect/ve technique tO begin ... that
it serve as a naturallanguage input system to facilitate transfer
of knowledge during the knowledge acquisition phase of expert
system development. IIqKA is not intended to stand alone as...
... experimental
systems for
natural- language
access to databases,
with some now going into actual use, many problems
in this area remain to be solved. The purpose of
this panel is to put some of those ...
that,
too often in the past,
discussion of natural- language access to databases
has focused, at the expense of the underlying
issues, on what particular systems can or cannot
do. To avoid ... NATURAL- LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES THEORETICAL/TECHNICAL ISSUES
Robert
C. Moore
Artificial Intelligence Center...
... take such factors as time scale into account.
The problem is more difficult to deal with for a
transportable natural- language interface, but two
strategies appear possible. One is to provide ... of hlgher-ozdez degree
operator, then that operator has to apply to both
predicates and quantiflers. Another possibility
would be to apply the degree operator to an entire
fozmula, as in ... goal of transportability is to enable
nonspeciallsts to adapt a natural- language
processing system for access to an existing
conventional database. TEAM is designed to
interact
with two different...
... other problems in
natural language access to databases.
In addition to considering some subset of the
chairman's five problems, each of the panelists was
invited to propose and choose ... TQA assigns to the sen-
tence
"What is the zone of the vacant parcels in subplan-
ning area 410?"
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THEORETICAL/TECHNICAL ISSUES IN NATURALLANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES
S. R. ... establishing the completeness of
query languages offer little or no guidance as to
the construction of a practical translator from
relational calculus to a formal query language such
as SQL. Hence,...
...
access to databases is that the work is restricted
to providing access to databases, whereas users
would appreciate NL interfacesto computer systems
in general. Moreover, the
attempt to
provide ...
"front-end" to databases is surely putting the
cart before the horse. What one should really do
is to investigate what "back-end" is needed to
support NL interfacesto computers, ... reallsed in the
language Prolog, has a great deal in common with
the relational approach to databases, which can be
seen as the result of a "bottom-up" effort to make
database languages...
...
is to try to capture the physicians" written " ;Natural
Language& quot; for describing patients and to write programs
to convert these descriptions to the appropriate coded
input to ... N. NaturalLanguage Information FormatttnB:
The Automatic Conversion of Texts into a Structured
Data-Base, In Advances in Computers, Yovits M.
[Ed.], Vol. 17, 1978.
9. SanBster B. NaturalLanguage ... type of scotoma is the
arcuate (bow-shaped) scotoma. This must be a separate
concept since it
is meaninsful
to
suty
"double arcuste
scotoma" but not "doubte scotoma",...
...
"Developing a NaturalLanguage Interface to Complex
Data," SRI International, 1976.
11. Hendrix, G. G., "The LIFER Manual: A guide to Building
Practical NaturalLanguage Interfaces, " ... The initial
objective of this study was to circumscribe the naturallanguage
interface task by attempting to instruct users of a simulated
interface not to employ different discourse devices ... appropriate commands to the
(real) operating system.
In different sessions, users were instructed not to use
pronouns, to type only complete sentences, to avoid complex
syntax, to type only direct...