TEAM: An Experiment in the Design of Transportable Natural-Language Interfaces

Abstract

This article describe TEAM, a transportable natural-language interface system. TEAM was constructed to test the feasibility of building a natural-language system that could be adapted to interface with new databases by users who are not experts in natural-language processing. An overview of the system design is presented, emphasizing those choices that were imposed by the demands of transportability. Several general problems of natural-language processing that were faced in constructing the system are discussed, including quantifier scoping, various pragmatic issues, and verb acquisition. TEAM is compared with several other transportable systems; this comparison includes a discussion of the range of natural language handled by each as well as a description of the approach taken to achieving transportability in each system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 1986
Accession Number
ADA461638

Entities

People

  • Barbara J. Grosz
  • Douglas E. Appelt
  • Paul J Martin
  • Фернандо Лобо Перейра

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Transportable

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation