1983 IRNLIAnExpertNaturalLanguageInt

• (Guida & Tasso, 1983) ⇒ Giovanni Guida, and Carlo Tasso. (1983). “IR-NLI: An Expert Natural Language Interface to Online Data Bases.” In: Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing. doi:10.3115/974194.974200

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Constructing natural language interfaces to computer systems often requires achievment of advanced reasoning and expert capabilities in addition to basic natural language understanding. In this paper the above issues are faced in the frame of an actual application concerning the design of a natural language interface for the access to online information retrieval systems. After a short discussion of the peculiarities of this application, which requires both natural language understanding and reasoning capabilities, the general architecture and fundamental design criteria of a system presently being developed at the University of Udine are then presented. The system, named IR-NLI, is aimed at allowing non-technical users to directly access through natural language the services offered by online data bases. Attention is later focused on the basic functions of IR-NLI, namely, understanding and dialogue, strategy generation, and reasoning. Knowledge represenetation methods and algorithms adopted are also illustarted. A short example of interaction with IR-NLI is presented. Perspectives and directions for future research are also discussed.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1983 IRNLIAnExpertNaturalLanguageInt	Giovanni Guida Carlo Tasso			IR-NLI: An Expert Natural Language Interface to Online Data Bases				10.3115/974194.974200		1983