Responding to Semantically Ill-Formed Input,

Abstract

One cause of failure language interfaces is semantic overshoot; this is reflected in input sentences which do not correspond to any semantic pattern in the system, We describe a system which provides helpful feedback in such cases by identifying the semantically closest inputs which the system would be able to understand. We propose to provide the user with sentences which are semantically close to the original input (in a sense to be defined below) and are acceptable inputs to the system. Such feedback may occasionally be confusing, but we expect that more often it will be helpful in showing the system's capabilities and suggesting possible rephrasings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188638

Entities

People

  • Ping Peng
  • Ralph David Grishman

Organizations

  • New York University

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science
  • Context Free Grammars
  • Databases
  • Feedback
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Models
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Semantic Models
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design