Experience with the Evaluation of Natural Language Question Answerers.

Abstract

Research in natural language processing could be facilitated by thorough and critical evaluations of natural language systems. Two measurements, conceptual and linguistic completeness, are defined and discussed in this paper. Testing done on two natural language question answerers demonstrated that the conceptual coverage of such systems should be extended to better satisfy the needs and expectations of users. Three heuristics are presented that describe how conceptual coverage of question answerers should be extended. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA081926

Entities

People

  • Harry Tennant

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata Theory
  • Automatic
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineering
  • English Language
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Relational Databases
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation