Transportability in the Consul System: Model Modularity and Acquisition.
Abstract
Transportability in the Consul system means integrating new conputer services within the existing framework. That integration covers a lot of ground in the Consul view of things. When a new service is built, we want to know enough about its functionality andf objects so it can share the user interface, the natural language system, and the interaction environment (error handling, data coercion, history, etc.). We do this by building a single knowledge bases that models the revelent parts of the workstation environmment ( and any existing services). When a new service is brought in, it is modeled and tied to the existing knowledge base through an acquisition process that guarantees the integration we demand. By acquiring a service, we have 'transported' our system to it. This paper will describe how we currently organize knowledge base to facilitate the acquisition process and how this methodology can be extended to the natural language part of the system. Keywords include: knowledge acquisition, knowledge bases, natural language interfaces, transportability, user intefaces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA153952
Entities
People
- D. Wilczynski
- N. Sondheimer
Organizations
- University of Southern California