A Model for a Natural Language Data Base System.

Abstract

A system called PLANES (for Programmed LANguage-based Enquiry System) is under development at this laboratory. The primary objective of PLANES is to allow a non-programmer to obtain information from a large data base with minimal prior training or experience. Such a system must understand a substantial degree of a user's natural language and guide and educate him to formulate requests in a form the system can understand. The system must handle complex syntactic structures, abbreviations, pronoun reference and ellipsis. The system must also give back explicit answers and not just retrieve a file. Minor errors--such as spelling and grammatical errors--should be tolerated. The system should be interactive and on-line, provide clarifying dialogues, operate fairly rapidly, and should be relatively easy to extend. See also AD-A028 316.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA057641

Entities

People

  • Bradley Alan Goodman

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • English Language
  • Grammars
  • Identification
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Maintenance
  • Natural Languages
  • Recognition
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Training
  • United States

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design