Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
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ROBOT: a high performance natural language processor for data base query
ACM SIGART Bulletin
Formal languages and their relation to automata
Formal languages and their relation to automata
Natural language with discrete speech as a mode for human-to-machine
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BAROQUE: a browser for relational databases
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Semantics modeling issues for processing natural language database queries
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Portability in the Janus Natural Language Interface
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Graph-based retrieval of information in hypertext systems
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Constructing natural language interface applications to operating systems
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CALIN: a user interface based on a simple natural language
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ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
On database systems development through logic
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The CABER project: the capture and analysis of behavioural events in real-time
ACM '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM annual conference on The range of computing : mid-80's perspective: mid-80's perspective
A scheme-driven natural language query translator
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A natural language interface for information retrieval from forms on the World Wide Web
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
Database Management Systems Development in the USSR
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
LDC-1: a transportable, knowledge-based natural language processor for office environments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Conversing with management information systems in a natural language
Communications of the ACM
Talking to UNIX in English: an overview of UC
Communications of the ACM
Learning for semantic interpretation: scaling up without dumbing down
Learning language in logic
Characterizing a subset of natural language
ACM-SE 17 Proceedings of the 17th annual Southeast regional conference
Embedding expert knowledge and hypothetical data bases into a data base system
SIGMOD '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Common expression analysis in database applications
SIGMOD '82 Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
An Analysis of Initiative Selection in CollaborativeTask-Oriented Discourse
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Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
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A Form-Based Natural Language Front-End to a CIM Database
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Conceptual information retrieval
SIGIR '80 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using Multiple Clause Constructors in Inductive Logic Programming for Semantic Parsing
EMCL '01 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Machine Learning
Query Construction through Meaningful Suggestions of Terms
FQAS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Some Comments On EQS, A Near Term Natural Language Data Base Query System
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
A programming language framework for designing user interfaces
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Mediating the views of databases and database users
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Proceedings of the 1980 workshop on Data abstraction, databases and conceptual modeling
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Proceedings of the 1980 workshop on Data abstraction, databases and conceptual modeling
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Natural language systems: How are they meeting human needs?
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Toward natural language computation
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Natural language access to data bases: interpreting update requests
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Isolating domain dependencies in natural language interfaces
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Knowledge based question answering
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
How to drive a database front end using general semantic information
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Handling ill-formed input: session introduction
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Utilizing domain-specific information for processing compact text
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
A status report on the LRC machine
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Interactive natural language problem solving: a pragmatic approach
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Resolving anaphora in a portable natural language front end to databases
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Towards an adaptive natural language interface to command languages
Natural Language Engineering
A pragmatics-based approach to ellipsis resolution
Computational Linguistics
A natural language interface using a world model
EACL '85 Proceedings of the second conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Meta-rules as a basis for processing ill-formed input
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on ill-formed input
The syntax and semantics of user-defined modifiers in a transportable natural language processor
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Semantic interpretation using KL-ONE
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Transportable natural-language interfaces: problems and techniques
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An improved heuristic for ellipsis processing
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Factorization of language constraints in speech recognition
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Future prospects for computational linguistics
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The lexical semantics of comparative expressions in a multi-level semantic processor
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Mechanisms for mixed-initiative human-computer collaborative discourse
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A practical comparison of parsing strategies
ACL '81 Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Transportable natural-language interfaces to databases
ACL '81 Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An interactive visualization method of numerical data based on natural language requirements
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue on HCI research in Japan
A rule-based approach to ill-formed input
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
Linguistic analysis of natural language communication with computers
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
Using a natural-artificial hybrid language for database access
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
Goal oriented parsing: improving the efficiency of natural language access to relational data bases
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
Three typed pragmatics for dialogue structure analysis
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
ARBUS, a tool for developing application grammars
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GramCheck: a grammar and style checker
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Knowledge representation and natural language understanding
ACM SIGART Bulletin
Answering it with charts: dialogue in natural language and charts
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FNDS: a dialogue-based system for accessing digested financial news
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EMNLP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing and very large corpora: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 13
DGRC AskCal: natural language question answering for energy time series
dg.o '02 Proceedings of the 2002 annual national conference on Digital government research
The LRC machine translation system
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on machine translation
A form-based approach to natural language query processing
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
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Lexicalisation strategies in cooperative question-answering systems
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
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VLDB '79 Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 5
QUIST: a system for semantic query optimization in relational databases
VLDB '81 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 7
Semantics vs. graphics - to show or not to show
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Conversation-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases
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Behaviour & Information Technology
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Definition of database transactions by the casual user
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Special issue on interactive question answering: introduction
Natural Language Engineering
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WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Generic interactive natural language interface to databases (GINLIDB)
EC'09 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on evolutionary computing
COOPML: towards annotating cooperative discourse
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
A proposed architecture for dynamically built NLIDB systems
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
A general semantic analyser for data base access
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A metalanguage representation of relational databases for deductive question-answering systems
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Interfacing a semantic net with an augmented transition network
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Generic querying of relational databases using natural language generation techniques
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
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AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Reducing indeterminism in consultation: a cognitive model of user/librarian interactions
AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Short communication: A tool for access to relational databases in natural language
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Free-text search over complex web forms
IRFC'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multidisciplinary information retrieval facility
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
A natural language interface for data warehouse question answering
NLDB'11 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Natural language processing and information systems
Towards fuzzy ontology handling vagueness of natural languages
RSKT'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
Natural language database access using semi-automatically constructed translation knowledge
IJCNLP'04 Proceedings of the First international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Fuzzy query answering in motor racing domain
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Managing Multiple Knowledge Sources In Constraint-Based Parsing Of Spoken Language
Fundamenta Informaticae
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Aspects of an intelligent interface that provides natural language access to a large body of data distributed over a computer network are described. The overall system architecture is presented, showing how a user is buffered from the actual database management systems (DBMSs) by three layers of insulating components. These layers operate in series to convert natural language queries into calls to DBMSs at remote sites. Attention is then focused on the first of the insulating components, the natural language system. A pragmatic approach to language access that has proved useful for building interfaces to databases is described and illustrated by examples. Special language features that increase system usability, such as spelling correction, processing of incomplete inputs, and run-time system personalization, are also discussed. The language system is contrasted with other work in applied natural language processing, and the system's limitations are analyzed.