HELP: A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM,

Abstract

HELP - A Question Answering System - enables a user, sitting at a console of a time-shaped computer, to obtain information on questions typed in. This information might concern the operating system itself, the format of commands to the user interface executive program, the use of a selected subsystem, or an area totally separate from the computer. The content of the data base in HELP is completely arbitrary, and determined by the creator of each individual system. Questions are presented to HELP in standard English. A second system, called QAS, was developed to enable a user to conveniently generate a HELP program. The paper will discuss the structure of both programs.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 11, 1969
Accession Number
AD0698316

Entities

People

  • Roger Roberts

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Digital Information
  • Executives
  • Operating Systems
  • Standards
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Educational Psychology