TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "THERE STILL IS GOLD IN THE DATABASE MINE"

But I can take this stand strongly only by being very liberal in defining both "natural language interface" and "database systems". Instead of assuming that the problem is one of using typed English to access and/or update a file or files in a single database system, let us define a spectrum of potential natural language interfaces (limiting that phrase, for the moment, to mean typed English sentences) to various kinds of information systems. At one end of this spectrum is simple, single database query, in which the translation from NL to the db system is quite direct. . | THERE STILL IS GOLD IN THE DATABASE MINE Madeleine Bates BBN Laboratories 10 Moulton Street Cambridge MA 02238 Let me state clearly at the outset that I disagree with the premise that the problem of interfacing to database systems has outlived its usefulness as a productive environment for NL research. But I can take this stand strongly only by being very liberal in defining both natural language interface and database systems . Instead of assuming that the problem Is one of using typed English to access and or update a file or files in a single database system let US define a spectrum of potential natural language interfaces limiting that phrase for the moment to mean typed English sentences to various kinds of information systems. At one end of this spectrum is simple single database query in which the translation from NL to the db system Is quite direct. This problem has been addressed by serious researchers for several years and if one is to measure productivity in terms of volume has proved its worth by the number of papers published and panels held on the subject. Indeed It has been so deeply mined that the thought Oh no I Not another panel on natural language Interfaces to databases has resulted In this panel which is supposed to debate the necessity of continuing work In this area rather than to debate technical Issues in the area. And yet if this problem has been solved where is the solution Where are the applications of this research True commercial natural language access Interfaces for some database systems have been available for several years and new ones are being advertised every month. Yet these systems are now not very capable. For example one of these systems carried on the following sequence of exchanges with me User Are all the vice presidents male System Yes. User Are any of the vice presidents female System Yes. User Are any of the male vice presidents female System Yes. Nothing was unusual about either this database or the corporate officers

• Báo cáo khoa học
• THERE STILL IS GOLD
• THE DATABASE MINE
• Madeleine
• scientific reports
• model language
• process natural language
• Dialog Control
• Natural Language System
• Dialog Control in a Natural Language System
• Expanding the Horizons
• Natural Language Interfaces
• Phil Hayes
• PROSPECTS OR PRACTICAL
• NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
• Workshops
• NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERACTION WITH MACHINES
• Long Papers
• COMPUTER INTEBFACE DESIGN MURRAY TUROFF DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER
• IiVFORMATION SCIENCE IIEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERFACES TO DATABASE SYSTEMS
• A PANEL DISCUSSION
• database query system
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• Norwood Crout
• INTERFACES TO DATA BASE SYSTEMS
• Bozena Henisz
• INTERPRETING NATURAL LANGUAGE
• DATABASE UPDATES
• S
• Jermld Kaplan Jim David
• TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERFACES TO DATABASES
• Gary G
• Hendrlx and William H
• Lewis
• DATABASES THEORETICAL
• TECHNICAL ISSUES
• TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES
• PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES
• Barbara J
• Grosz
• THEORETICAL TECHNICAL ISSUES
• NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES
• R
• Petrick
• Domain Independent
• Database Access Systems
• ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
• ACCESS TO DATABASES
• A LOGIC PROGRAMMING PERSPECTIVE
• Sharon C
• Salveter David Maier
• PLANNING NATURAL LANGUAGE
• EXPRESSIONS REFERRING
• Douglas E
• Appelt
• THE TEXT SYSTEM
• NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
• Kathleen R
• M
• MENTING A DATABASE
• KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
• THE KEY TO THE SELECTION PROBLEM
• E
• Jeffrey Conklin David D
• McDonald
• A KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
• NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
• Stuart C
• Shapiro
• NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS
• NECESSARILY GRAMMATICAL
• EVEN COMPLETE
• UNGRAMHATICALITY
• EXTRA GRAMMATICALITY
• NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS
• Taxonomy
• Descriptions
• Individuals in Natural
• Language Understanding
• The Use of Ooject Special Knowledge
• Natural Language Processing
• Mark H
• Bursteln