TEAM: an experiment in the design of transportable natural-language interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
Unification-based semantic interpretation
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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SESAME is being developed to provide an easy access to the content of relational data bases to users without a specific computer training. Queries are typed in natural language either freely or with a guided mode. The system dynamically proposes through menus the different words and phrases that can make up a query. Users are able to exploit the results of their queries with standard electronic office tools or specialized applications.The SESAME system is a user interface generator. To develop a particular application, different knowledge bases have to be built: lexicon, conceptual schema of the data base... Knowledge base editors and design methodologies provide help for the development of applications.SESAME is a good example of techniques created in research laboratories and applied to the development of an industrial product.