An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Understanding Natural Language
Understanding Natural Language
Transportable natural language processing through simplicity—the PRE system
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
An imperative sentence processor for voice interactive office applications
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A framework for choosing a database query language
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Summarizing natural language database responses
Computational Linguistics
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Providing Quality Responses with Natural Language Interfaces: The Null Value Problem
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An information retrieval system for software components
ACM SIGIR Forum
Modeling the user in natural language systems
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on user modeling
Natural language querying of historical databases
Computational Linguistics
Parsing with flexibility, dynamic strategies, and idioms in mind
Computational Linguistics
An intelligent user interface to CIM multiple data bases
SIGBDP '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems
Parsing semantic dependencies in associative networks
IEA/AIE '90 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - Volume 1
Semantics modeling issues for processing natural language database queries
CSC '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation
Using expectation to enable spoken variable initiative dialog
SAC '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's
Techniques for automatically correcting words in text
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards a natural language interface for CAD
DAC '85 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
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
CSC '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM thirteenth annual conference on Computer Science
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
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
Plan Realization for Complex Command Interaction in the UNIX Help Domain
Artificial Intelligence Review - special issue on intelligent help systems for Unix part II: planning and knowledge representation
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
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
The fact database: a system based on inferential methods
SIGIR '80 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An interactive database end user facility for the definition and manipulation of forms
SIGIR '84 Proceedings of the 7th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces
VLDB '83 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Natural Language Dialogue For Managing An On-Line Calendar
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
A conceptual schema for Knowledge-based systems
Proceedings of the 1980 workshop on Data abstraction, databases and conceptual modeling
Design of an ATN generator/modifier for supporting a communication prosthesis
ACM '84 Proceedings of the 1984 annual conference of the ACM on The fifth generation challenge
A prototype DBMS with a Turkish query Language
ACM '82 Proceedings of the ACM '82 conference
Cognitive style, categorization, and vocational effectss on performance of REL database users
CHI '81 Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computer Systems. (Part - II): Human Interface and the User Interface - Volume 1981
Toward natural language computation
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Paraphrasing questions using given and new information
Computational Linguistics
Re Ballard on the need for careful description
Computational Linguistics
Problems in natural-language interface to DBMS with examples from EUFID
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Isolating domain dependencies in natural language interfaces
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
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Utilizing domain-specific information for processing compact text
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Interactive natural language problem solving: a pragmatic approach
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
A pragmatics-based approach to ellipsis resolution
Computational Linguistics
Empirical studies of discourse representations for natural language interfaces
EACL '89 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for 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
Recovery strategies for parsing extragrammatical language
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on ill-formed input
Meta-rules as a basis for processing ill-formed input
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on ill-formed input
A flexible natural language parser based on a two-level representation of syntax
EACL '83 Proceedings of the first conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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
A case analysis method cooperating with ATNG and its application to machine translation
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A response to the need for summary responses
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Coping with extragrammaticality
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Getting idioms into a lexicon based parser's head
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd 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
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Parsing in the absence of a complete lexicon
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Hidden understanding models of natural language
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Paraphrasing using given and new information in a question-answer system
ACL '79 Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A rule-based approach to ill-formed input
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
REASON: an intelligent user assistant for interactive environments
IBM Systems Journal
A system for natural language computation
ACM SIGLASH Newsletter
An approach for response generation of restricted Bulgarian natural language queries
CompSysTech '04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer systems and technologies
Research at the U. of Illinois
ACM SIGART Bulletin
Multilingual question answering with high portability on relational databases
MultiSumQA '02 proceedings of the 2002 conference on multilingual summarization and question answering - Volume 19
Natural language access to multiple databases: a model and a prototype
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Toward a theory of business process change management
A form-based approach to natural language query processing
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A STEP towards realizing Codd's vision of rendezvous with the casual user
VLDB '07 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases
Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
An assessment of written/interactive dialogue for information retrieval applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Introducing VIPS: a voice-interactive processing system for document management
AFIPS '84 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
Issues in the development of natural language front-ends
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
Definition of database transactions by the casual user
AFIPS '80 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference
An English-language processing system that "learns" about new domains
AFIPS '83 Proceedings of the May 16-19, 1983, national computer conference
CICLing '07 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
A proposed architecture for dynamically built NLIDB systems
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
Anaphora for limited domain systems
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Figuring out what the user wants: Steps toward an automatic yellow pages assistant
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Multi-strategy construction-specific parsing for flexible data base query and update
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A general semantic analyser for data base access
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Q-TRANS: query translation into English
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
JETS: achieving completeness through coverage and closure
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Graceful interaction in man-machine communication
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Interfacing a semantic net with an augmented transition network
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint 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
Reducing indeterminism in consultation: a cognitive model of user/librarian interactions
AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
PKWBS-W'84 Proceedings of the 1984 IEEE conference on Principles of knowledge-based systems
Natural language database access using semi-automatically constructed translation knowledge
IJCNLP'04 Proceedings of the First international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Brief paper: An expert intermediary system for interactive document retrieval
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
A question answer approach to building semantic memory
ICAISC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - Volume Part II
A semantic approach for question analysis
IEA/AIE'12 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: advanced research in applied artificial intelligence
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By typing requests in English, casual users will be able to obtain explicit answers from a large relational database of aircraft flight and maintenance data using a system called PLANES. The design and implementation of this system is described and illustrated with detailed examples of the operation of system components and examples of overall system operation. The language processing portion of the system uses a number of augmented transition networks, each of which matches phrases with a specific meaning, along with context registers (history keepers) and concept case frames; these are used for judging meaningfulness of questions, generating dialogue for clarifying partially understood questions, and resolving ellipsis and pronoun reference problems. Other system components construct a formal query for the relational database, and optimize the order of searching relations. Methods are discussed for handling vague or complex questions and for providing browsing ability. Also included are discussions of important issues in programming natural language systems for limited domains, and the relationship of this system to others.