Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System
Abstract
This paper describes the design of a transportable natural language (NL) interface to databases and the constraints that transportability places on each component of such a system. By a transportable NL system, the authors mean an NL processing system that is constructed so that a domain expert (rather than an artificial intelligence (AI) or linguistics expert) can move the system to a new application domain. After discussing the general problems presented by transportability, this paper describes TEAM (an acronym for Transportable English database Access Medium), a demonstrable prototype of such a system. The discussion of TEAM shows how domain-independent and domain-dependent information can be separated in the different components of a NL interface system, and presents one method of obtaining domain-specific information from a domain expert.
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Martin et al. "Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.Markdown
[Martin et al. "Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/martin1983ijcai-transportability/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{martin1983ijcai-transportability,
title = {{Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System}},
author = {Martin, Paul A. and Appelt, Douglas E. and Pereira, Fernando C. N.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1983},
pages = {573-581},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/martin1983ijcai-transportability/}
}