Natural language interface
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This article describes TEAM, a transportable natural-language interface system. TEAM was constructed to test the feasibility of building a natural-language system that could be adapted to interface with new databases by users who are not... more
FLEX a user interface to relational databases, can be used satisfactorily by users with different levels of expertise. FLEX is based on a formal query language, but is tolerant of incorrect input. It never rejects queries; instead, it... more
The inevitable proliferation of expert systems underscores the need for robust, friendly interfaces requiring minimal user training. The objective of the XCALIBUR project is to meet this need by providing natural comprehension and... more
The Royal Institute Elcano (Real Instituto Elcano) in Spain is a prestigious independent political institute whose mission is to comment on the political situation in the world focusing on its relation to Spain. As part of its... more
An adaptive parser responds to unfamiliar utterances by augmenting the grammar with rules that will permit the same utterance to be parsed the next time it is encoun-tered. The kind of grammatical components that the system learns are... more
The genitive relation is one of the most complex semantic structures, since it could express wide range of different connection types between entities, even in a single language. Thus, transformation of its syntactic form to a formal... more
This paper presents CoCo, a system that automates web tasks on a user's behalf through an interactive conversational interface. Given a short command such as" get road conditions for highway 88," CoCo synthesizes a plan to... more
System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain... more