Shifting to a higher gear in a natural language system
AFIPS Conference Proceedings; vol. 55 1986 National Computer Conference
An English-language processing system that“learns" about new domains
AFIPS Conference Proceedings; vol. 55 1986 National Computer Conference
LDC-1: a transportable, knowledge-based natural language processor for office environments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
DIAGRAM: a grammar for dialogues
Communications of the ACM
The restriction language for computer grammars of natural language
Communications of the ACM
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Information retrieval using a transportable natural language interface
SIGIR '83 Proceedings of the 6th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Languages
Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Languages
Understanding Natural Language
Understanding Natural Language
Automatic Program Construction Techniques
Automatic Program Construction Techniques
Natural Language Communication with Computers
Programming in natural language: “NLC” as a prototype
ACM '79 Proceedings of the 1979 annual conference
Computational Linguistics
Toward natural language computation
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Introducing ask, a simple knowledgeable system
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
A robust portable natural language data base interface
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
TEAM: a transportable natural-language interface system
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
Augmented phrase structure grammars
TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
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 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
Site report: computational linguistics research at Duke University
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
Semantic acquisition in TELI: a transportable, user-customized natural language processor
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A general computational treatment of comparatives for natural language question answering
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
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We present methods of dealing with the syntactic problems that arise in the construction of natural language processors that seek to allow users, as opposed to computational linguists, to customize an interface to operate with a new domain of data. In particular, we describe a grammatical formalism, based on augmented phrase-structure rules, which allows a parser to perform many important domain-specific disambiguations by reference to a pre-defined grammar and a collection of auxiliary files produced during an initial knowledge acquisition session with the user. We illustrate the workings of this formalism with examples from the grammar developed for our Layered Domain Class (LDC) system, though similarly motivated systems ought also to benefit from our formalisms. In addition to showing the theoretical advantage of providing many of the fine-tuning capabilities of so-called semantic grammars within the context of a domain-independent grammar, we demonstrate several practical benefits to our approach. The results of three experiments with our grammar and parser are also given.