Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Correcting misconceptions: What to say when the user is mistaken
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cooperative responses from a portable natural language data base query system.
Cooperative responses from a portable natural language data base query system.
Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
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One goal of natural language research is to make systems more accessible to their users by allowing them to interact with machines in a language as close as possible to the language people use among themselves. Developing systems that answer natural language questions is one way to allow users to interact easily with computers. In the following sections, I briefly describe ways in which researchers have been successful in this attempt, limitations inherent in existing natural language systems, and current efforts to bring systems closer to meeting the needs of their users. To illustrate these issues, I focus on natural language database systems as one example of question-answering systems.