TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "THE GENERATION OF TERM DEFINITIONS FROM AN ON-LINE TECHNOLOGICA"

A new type of machine dictionary is described, which uses terminological relations to build up a semantic network representing the terms of a particular subject field, through interaction with the user. These relations are then used to dynamically generate outline definitions of terms in on-line query mode. The definitions produced are precise, consistent and informative, and allow the user to situate a query term in the local conceptual ~vironment. The simple definitions based on terminological relations are supplemented by information contained in facets and modifiers, which allow the user to capture different views of the data. . | THE GENERATION OF TERM DEFINITIONS FROM AN ON-LINE TERMINOLOGICAL THESAURUS John McNaugfrt Centre for Computational Linguistics UMIST . Box 88 Manchester UK ABSTRACT A new type of machine dictionary is described which uses terminological relations to build up a semantic network representing the terms of a particular subject field through Interaction with the user. These relations are then used to dynamically generate outline definitions of terms in on-line query mode. The definitions produced are precise consistent and informative and allow the user to situate a query term in the local conceptual arvironment. The simple definitions based on terminological relations are supplemented by Information contained in facets and modifiers which allow the user to capture different views of the data. I Introduction This paper describes an on-going project being carried out at UMIST which is concerned with the nature construction and use of specialised machine dictionaries concentrating on one particular type the terminological thesaurus Sager 1981 . The system described here is capable of dynamically producing outline definitions of technical terms and it Is this feature which distinguishes it from other automated dictionaries. II Background A. Published Specialised Dictionaries These traditional reference tools while of tai containing high quality terminology collected after painstaking research do not in the normal case afford the user an overall conceptual view of the subject field as they exhibit a relative lack of structure. Moreover due to the limitations of the printed page the format of the entries is fixed such that users with differing information needs are obliged to search through to them irrelevant data. The only real aid which allows the user to place a term roughly in the local conceptual environment is the conventional definition. However such definitions tend to be idiosyncratic Inconsistent and nonrigorous especially if the subject field is of any great .

• Báo cáo khoa học
• THE GENERATION OF TERM DEFINITIONS
• AN ON LINE TECHNOLOGICA
• John McNaught
• 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
• J
• 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
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• 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