Towards Friendlier User Interfaces for Expert Systems,

Abstract

Much research in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence has gone into characterizing natural language discourse structures, developing discourse models, and using these to develop more useful natural language interfaces to databases and expert systems. However, this knowledge about the nature of discourse has not been used to any advantage in graphical expert system interfaces. This paper proposes that discourse elements and discourse models used in the world of natural language understanding can be extended to graphical expert system interfaces, promoting continuity of interactions and allowing relationships among interactions to be exploited, redundancy reduced, operations tracked, and higher-level operations recognized.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294056

Entities

People

  • Elaine Marsh

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Expert Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Submarines
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation