Portability in the Janus Natural Language Interface

Abstract

Although natural language technology has achieved a high degree of domain independence through separating domain-independent modules from domain-dependent knowledge bases, portability, as measured by effort to move from one application to another, is still a problem. Here we describe a knowledge acquisition tool (KNACQ) that has sharply decreased our effort in building knowledge bases. The knowledge bases acquired with KNACQ are used by both the understanding components and the generation components of Janus.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA457478

Entities

People

  • Damaris Ayuso
  • Lance Ramshaw
  • Ralph M. Weischedel
  • Robert J. Bobrow

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Battle Management
  • Command Centers
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Databases
  • Expert Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Semantics

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Economics