How to Drive a Database Front End Using General Semantic Information,
Abstract
This paper describes a front end for natural language access to database making extensive use of general, i.e. domain-independent, semantic information for question interpretation. In the interests of portability, initial syntactic and semantic processing of a question is carried out without any reference to the database domain, and domain-dependent operations are confined to subsequent, comparatively straighforward, processing of the initial interpretation. The different modules of the front end are described, and the system's performance is illustrated by examples.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADP001171
Entities
People
- B. K. Boguraev
- K. Sparck Jones
Organizations
- University of Cambridge