A response to the need for summary responses

Authors:
J. K. Kalita;M. J. Colbourn;G. I. McCalla
Affiliations:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Venue:
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1984

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Abstract

In this paper we argue that natural language interfaces to databases should be able to produce summary responses as well as listing actual data. We describe a system (incorporating a number of heuristics and a knowledge base built on top of the database) that has been developed to generate such summary responses. It is largely domain-independent, has been tested on many examples, and handles a wide variety of situations where summary responses would be useful.