... The job of the knowledge acquisition module of LDC, called "Prep" in Figure 1, is to' find out about (a) the vocabulary of the new domain and (b) the composition of the physical ... field of a record; vzzern, which returns the size of its argument, which is assumed to be a set; sum, which returns the sum of '.'-s list of inputs; aug, which returns the average of ... E., Sagalowicz, D. and Slocum, J. Developing a natural language interface to complex data. ACM Tr(uts. on D=t~bsse ~l/stsrrts, 3 (1978), 2, pp. 105-147. 18. Lehmann, H. Interpretation of natural...