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A Natural Language Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases

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Advances in Natural Language Processing (PorTAL 2002)

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Abstract

A logic programming based dialogue system with the capability of inferring user attitudes and accessing heterogeneous external relational databases while doing syntactic and semantic sentence parsing is presented.

The system was built using a logic programming language - Prolog -, a development tool - ISCO [2] - and a language for representing actions - LUPS [4].

An application of the developed system to the Universidade deÉvora’ Integrated Information System (SIIUE) was developed and some examples of typical dialogues are presented.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

    Luis Quintano

  2. Serviço de Computação, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

    Salvador Abreu, Paulo Quaresma & Irene Rodrigues

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  1. Universidade de Lisboa e CAUTL (IST), Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Elisabete Ranchhod

  2. L2F/INESC ID Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede

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Abreu, S., Quaresma, P., Quintano, L., Rodrigues, I. (2002). A Natural Language Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases. In: Ranchhod, E., Mamede, N.J. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. PorTAL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2389. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45433-0_24

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