Natural Language Data Base Query: Using the Data Base Itself as the Definition of World Knowledge and as an Extension of the Dictionary.

Abstract

This paper raises two issues that heretofore have not been dealt with in any previous natural language data base query system. These issues arise because of the everpresent need for world knowledge in the understanding of English, and also because of the particular way in which information is stored in a data base. The solutions to these problems described in this paper require only existing state of the art data base technology. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA036491

Entities

People

  • Larry R. Harris

Organizations

  • Dartmouth College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Classification
  • Composite Materials
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Dictionaries
  • English Language
  • Inversion
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Security
  • Words (Language)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design