Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
An English language question answering system for a large relational database
Communications of the ACM
Trends in Speech Recognition
Understanding Spoken Language
The ROBOT System: Natural language processing applied to data base query
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
Programming in natural language: “NLC” as a prototype
ACM '79 Proceedings of the 1979 annual 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
Semantic and procedural processing for a natural language programming system.
Semantic and procedural processing for a natural language programming system.
Toward natural language computation
Computational Linguistics
Operating statistics for the transformational question answering system
Computational Linguistics
Transportable natural-language interfaces to databases
ACL '81 Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Natural language with discrete speech as a mode for human-to-machine
Communications of the ACM
High level knowledge sources in usable speech recognition systems
Communications of the ACM
LDC-1: a transportable, knowledge-based natural language processor for office environments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Site report: computational linguistics research at Duke University
Computational Linguistics
A phrase-structured grammatical framework for transportable natural language processing
Computational Linguistics
Questioning the need for parsing ill-formed inputs
Computational Linguistics
Transportable English-language processing for office environments
AFIPS '84 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
Introducing VIPS: a voice-interactive processing system for document management
AFIPS '84 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
A review of methods for automatic understanding of natural language mathematical problems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Layering predictions: flexible use of dialog expectation in speech recognition
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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A class of natural language processors is described which allow a user to display objects of interest on a computer terminal and manipulate them via typed or spoken English sentences.This paper concerns itself with the implementation of the voice input facility using an automatic speech recognizer, and the touch input facility using a touch sensitive screen. To overcome the high error rates of the speech recognizer under conditions of actual problem solving in natural language, error correction software has been designed and is described here. Also described are problems involving the resolution of voice input with touch input, and the identification of the intended referents of touch input.To measure system performance we have considered two classes of factors: the various conditions of testing, and the level and quality of training of the system user. In the paper a sequence of five different testing situations is observed, each one resulting in a lowering of system performance by several percentage points below the previous one. A training procedure for potential users is described, and an experiment is discussed which utilizes the training procedure to enable users to solve actual non-trivial problems using natural language voice communication.