... ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES
FROM A LOGIC PROGRAMMING PERSPECTIVE
David H D Warren
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
I INTRODUCTION ...
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data to be defined by general rules having the
power of a fully general programming language.
The logic programming approach therefore allows
one to...
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while the last one is labelled as positive.
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can be generated using any discriminative learning
algorithm. During ... and D) could possibly appear in
the same rule. According to this rule, a pronominal
mention should be linked with a partial entity which
contains a named-entity and contains an indefinit...
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standard usage for people who communicate with each
other about drilling data, and any systss that
claims t~o provide a natural language interface t~ l
data base of drilling data must ... paper
I examine the issue of whether or not it is possi-
ble to build a natural language database access
systee that achieves an acceptable level of per-
formance without inc...
... G. and Lewis, W. Transportable natural
language interfaces to databases. Proceeaings
of the 19th Annual Meetin 9 of the ACL. 1981.
Kaplan, S. J. Cooperative responses from a
portable natural ... SYSTEMS
Although a wide class of applications are
appropriate for menu-based natural language
interfaces, our effort thus far has concentrated
on building interfaces to rel...
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11 must confess that I would have to include myself in any group claiming
adherence to data base query as a unify=ng task. I am still actively working in the
area, and to some ... favorite application for natural language
interfaces has been data base query. Why? The reasons range
from the relative simplicity of the task, including shallow semant...
... functioning sim-
ply as an interface to an ordinary relational database.
Having argued that significant work remains to be done
in natural language processing as an interface to databases,
I ... is that a great deal of important
natural language processing research remains to be done in
generalizing systems to cope with more than one natural
language. Work on...
... EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATABASE SYSTEMS:
A PANEL DISCUSSION
Norman K. Sondheimer, Chair
Sperry Univac
Blue Bell, PA
For a natural language access to database
system ... this has begun to change. In the
last several years, many of the current
generation of natural language access to
database systems have been subject to
laboratory...
...
appropriate for that database organization. In this
way, it would be easy to handle such database organ-
izations as that in which the total number of
parking lots and/or parking spaces is stored ...
quantification are involved in a logical form, the
corresponding quantification-indicating constructs
to be used in the formal query language translation
of that logical fo...
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