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A data management strategy for transportable natural language interfaces
Author(s) -
Johnson Julia A.,
Rosenberg Richard S.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of intelligent systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.291
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-111X
pISSN - 0884-8173
DOI - 10.1002/int.4550100902
Subject(s) - computer science , representation (politics) , task (project management) , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , interface (matter) , natural language , architecture , space (punctuation) , domain (mathematical analysis) , systems engineering , engineering , art , mathematical analysis , mathematics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , politics , parallel computing , political science , law , visual arts , operating system
Abstract By transportability of a natural language interface (NLI) we mean the ease with which it can be customized to a new domain and database by the database administrator as opposed to a linguistic expert. Next‐generation database systems (Genesis, Exodus, Starburst) are expansible to support a variety of applications each of which may use a different knowledge representation strategy. an enhanced architecture for natural language interfaces is presented that takes advantage of expansible next‐generation database systems to facilitate transportability. A two‐pass strategy for transportability is required within the enhanced architecture. On the first pass the NLI builds a representation space to facilitate its own transportability. On the second pass a transportability solution (viewed as a learning task) occurs in that representation space. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.