Problems and some solutions in customization of natural language database front ends
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Portability of syntax and semantics in DATALOG
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ASK is transportable in half a dozen ways
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The IRUS transportable natural language database interface
Proceedings from the first international workshop on Expert database systems
TEAM: an experiment in the design of transportable natural-language interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
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
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
A phrase-structured grammatical framework for transportable natural language processing
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
ACL '81 Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
An implementable semantics for comparative constructions
Computational Linguistics
EACL '91 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A general computational treatment of the comparative
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The lexical semantics of comparative expressions in a multi-level semantic processor
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
Identifying comparative claim sentences in full-text scientific articles
ACL '12 Proceedings of the Workshop on Detecting Structure in Scholarly Discourse
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We discuss the techniques we have developed and implemented for the cross-categorial treatment of comparatives in TELI, a natural language question-answering system that's transportable among both application domains and types of backend retrieval systems. For purposes of illustration, we shall consider the example sentences "List the cars at least 20 inches more than twice as long as the Century is wide" and "Have any US companies made at least 3 more large cars than Buick?" Issues to be considered include comparative inflections, left recursion and other forms of nesting, extraposition of comparative complements, ellipsis, the wh element "how", and the translation of normalized parse trees into logical form.