The multimedia articulation of answers in a natural language database query system

Authors:
Susan E. Brennan
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Venue:
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
1988

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Abstract

This paper describes a domain independent strategy for the multimedia articulation of answers elicited by a natural language interface to database query applications. Multimedia answers include videodisc images and heuristically-produced complete sentences in text or text-to-speech form. Deictic reference and feedback about the discourse are enabled. The interface thus presents the application as cooperative and conversational.