... describe the same argument position ofthe same predicate ac- cording tothe "thing" in the other "attribute" po- sition ofthe predicate, when needed. Consider for example the ... application toNaturalLanguage Database Interfacing. Ph.D. Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 316 Semantic Information Preprocessing for NaturalLanguageInterfacesto Databases ... restrictions to parsers in natural language interfaces (NLIs) to databases by extracting the selectional restrictions from semantic descriptions of those NLIs. Au- tomating the process of finding...
... match between the capabilities ofthe user and the requirements ofthe task. The user brings his own naturallanguage and his own style of interaction tothe system. The task brings the questions ... EVALUATION OFNATURALLANGUAGEINTERFACESTO DATABASE SYSTEMS: A PANEL DISCUSSION Norman K. Sondheimer, Chair Sperry Univac Blue Bell, PA For a naturallanguage access to database system to be ... and the database domaln+s semantics. All natural language access systems achieve some degree of success. But to make progress as a field, we need to be able to evaluate the degree of this...
... CNCL). ~ The meta-symbol t refers tothe parent node and t to the node to which the schema is attached. The final phase of INKA interprets the f-structures to produce Pmlog clauses. All ofthe ... of INKA is that it serve as a naturallanguage input systemto facilitate transfer of knowledge during theknowledge acquisition phase of expert system development. IIqKA is not intended to ... construction ofthe system& apos;s knowledge base during the knowledge ac~n phase of an expert system& apos;s development. The most important pragmatic facility is one to estimate the degree of epistemi¢...
... to convert these descriptions tothe appropriate coded input tothe consultation systems. The original motivation for this research came from the desire to have naturallanguage input of cases ... representation ofthe instance from the sentences in the case. The information required by the consultation system is then extracted and passed on tothe consultation system in the appropriately ... updating the concept GLAUCCMA-PATIENT. The interpretation of a case is thus consldared to be the construction of the the corresponding instance of GLAUCOMA-PATIENT. The nature of structured...
... the conference. The panel's motivation stems partly from the fact that, too often in the past, discussion of natural- language access to databases has focused, at the expense ofthe ... query will have to total the values ofthe NUMBER -OF- EMPLOYEES field in all the records for offices in the sales department. In each case, the English question is the same, but the required ... experimental systems for natural- language access to databases, with some now going into actual use, many problems in this area remain to be solved. The purpose of this panel is to put some of those...
... techniques for transportable natural- language interfaces. The goal of transportability is to enable nonspeciallsts to adapt a natural- language processing system for access to an existing conventional ... shifts onto thesystemthe burden of mediating between two views ofthe data the way in which it is stored (the "database view") and the way in which an end user thinks about it (the ... "database schema" to refer tothe encoding of information about the way concepts in the conceptual schema map onto the structures of the database. In addition, I will use the term "logical...
... down into offices with which are associated the total numbers of employees employed therein, to total the values ofthe NUMBER -OF- EMPLOYEES field in all the records for offices in the sales ... indicates that the arguments used in establishing the completeness of query languages offer little or no guidance as to the construction of a practical translator from relational calculus to a formal ... type of expression into which logical forms ofthe type (setx 'XI ) are trans- lated. A recursive call tothe basic logical form -to- SQL translation facility then suffices to supply the...
... struggle too hard to bend one's NL interface to fit an existing database. Rather the database should be designed to meet the needs of NL access. If the database does not easily support the ... Something along the lines of "setof" seems very necessary, as a first step at least. The question of how to treat explicitly stored aggregate information, such as "number of employees" ... by allowlng predications ofthe form: setof(X,P,S) to be read as " ;the set of Xs such that P is provable is S" [7]. An efficient implementation of *aetof" is provided in DEC-10...
... we conducted to ascertain the most pressing needs of natural languageinterfaces in interactive apl~lications, The initial objective of this study was to circumscribe thenaturallanguage interface ... inserting the highest level non-terminals in the in the ellipsed input in place ofthe matching non-terminals in the parse tree ofthe previous utterance. Taking advantage ofthe fact that a case ... or case header, and the attribute is a semantically permissible descriptor of tile case frame In the SELECT rield o9 the last query in focus, THEN: Substitute the new attribute name tot the...
... knowledge, topics theknowledge relates to) repositories which point tothe source of knowledge. As knowledge is intangible, Knowledge Management has to include the aspect of knowledge enabling: Knowledge ... selection of a ticket system. In the next phase, the ticket system was set up, i.e., thesystem was customized according to the needs ofthe organization. Furthermore, the related Knowledge ... • Knowledge for the customer is about the products and services which are offered to the customer. In this study, only theknowledge for the customer is addressed, as the project is aiming to...