Natural Language Access to a Large Data Base: An Engineering Approach
Abstract
An intelligent program which accepts natural language queries can allow anon-technical user to easily obtain information from a large non-uniform data base. This paper discusses the design of a program which will tolerate a wide variety of requests including ones with pronouns and referential phrases. The system embodies a certain amount of common sense, so that for example, it knows when it does or does not understand a particular request and it can bypass actual data base search in answering unreasonable requests. The system is conceptually simple and could be easily adapted to other data bases.
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Walts. "Natural Language Access to a Large Data Base: An Engineering Approach." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1975.Markdown
[Walts. "Natural Language Access to a Large Data Base: An Engineering Approach." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1975.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1975/walts1975ijcai-natural/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{walts1975ijcai-natural,
title = {{Natural Language Access to a Large Data Base: An Engineering Approach}},
author = {Walts, D.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1975},
pages = {868-872},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1975/walts1975ijcai-natural/}
}