A robust portable natural language data base interface

  • Authors:
  • Jerrold M. Ginsparg

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

This paper describes a NL data base interface which consists of two parts: a Natural Language Processor (NLP) and a data base application program (DBAP). The NLP is a general purpose language processor which builds a formal representation of the meaning of the English utterances it is given. The DBAP is an algorithm with builds a query in a augmented relational algebra from the output of the NLP. This approach yields an interface which is both extremely robust and portable.