Transportability and generality in a natural-language interface system

Authors:
Paul Martin;Douglas Appelt;Fernando Pereira
Affiliations:
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
Venue:
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1983

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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, we mean an NL processing system that is constructed so that a domain expert (rather than an 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 demonstratable 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.