Isolating Domain Dependencies in Natural Language Interfaces,

Abstract

Isolating the domain-dependent information within a large natural language system offers the general advantages of modular design and greatly enhances the portability of the system to new domains. We have explored the problem of isolating the domain dependencies within two large natural language systems, one for generating a tabular data base from text ('information formatting'), the other for retrieving information from a data base. We describe the domain information scheme which is used to capture the domain-specific information, and indicate how this information is used throughout the two systems.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADP001166

Entities

People

  • C. Friedman
  • L. Hirschman
  • Ralph David Grishman

Organizations

  • New York University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Cooperation
  • Databases
  • Formal Languages
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • New York

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics