Parrot: The Janus Paraphraser

Abstract

This report describes Parrot, a system that generates English text from a WML (World Model Language) expression produced by BBN's Irus-II natural language understanding system. The WML represents Irus-II's understanding of its input query. Parrot works with BBN's Spokesman text generation system to generate the paraphrase. Parrot and Irus-II are integrated as part of the Janus seamless interface system, which allows a user to query the underlying expert and database systems in English, as well as use menus, graphics, maps etc. to access information. This report provides both a general description of Parrot (sections 1 through 6) and implementation details for the person who may want to maintain or extend it (the remaining sections). K

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214588

Entities

People

  • Dawn M. Maclaughlin

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Corporations
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Deployment
  • Diego Garcia
  • Indian Ocean
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Measurement
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Oceans
  • Semantics
  • Specifications
  • Template Patterns
  • Words (Language)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications