Natural language and exploration of an information space: the ALFresco interactive system

  • Authors:
  • Oliviero Stock

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Povo, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

In traditional natural language systems, the channel of communication between the user and the system was a narrow and constraining device. In many areas natural Ian guage-based information access requires the possibility for the user of exploring the domain and a system's comfortable habitability. The present work presents a rationale for building intelligent interfaces that combine natural language and hypermedia as new means for human-computer interaction and in particular gives an outline of a prototype of this kind, built for the exploration of Italian frescoes: the ALFresco interactive system.