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An English-language processing system that "learns" about new domains

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Bruce W. Ballard,

John C. LusthAuthors Info & Claims

AFIPS '83: Proceedings of the May 16-19, 1983, national computer conference

Pages 39 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/1500676.1500682

Published: 16 May 1983 Publication History

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We are developing an English-language processing system called LDC with emphasis upon (a) small- or medium-sized office domains, as opposed to large relationalstyle databases; (b) mechanisms to learn about new domains and the English to be used in discussing them; and (c) capabilities for deep semantic processing, for example where English inputs can be phrased naturally, not merely as a notational variant for complete, formal queries. LDC consists of two major components and an external retrieval module. The first component, which we call "Prep," obtains information about a new domain and the language to be used in discussing it. The second, "user-phase," component of LDC resembles an ordinary NL processor, but (a) most decisions are determined from the preprocessed information appearing in the data files produced by Prep, and (b) the emphasis is upon the semantics of "layered" domains, described herein. In this paper we (1) present the motivation behind LDC; (2) summarize and give examples of the behavior of Prep; (3) provide an overview of the user-phase component; and (4) give examples of current and projected capabilities of the system.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3109481
Ballard B(1984)The syntax and semantics of user-defined modifiers in a transportable natural language processorProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980504(52-56)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
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Ballard BLusth JTinkham N(1984)Transportable English-language processing for office environmentsProceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition10.1145/1499310.1499393(643-649)Online publication date: 9-Jul-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1499310.1499393

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Pulido-Prieto OJuárez-Martínez U(2017)A Survey of Naturalistic Programming TechnologiesACM Computing Surveys10.1145/310948150:5(1-35)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3109481
Ballard B(1984)The syntax and semantics of user-defined modifiers in a transportable natural language processorProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980504(52-56)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/980491.980504
Ballard BLusth JTinkham N(1984)Transportable English-language processing for office environmentsProceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition10.1145/1499310.1499393(643-649)Online publication date: 9-Jul-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1499310.1499393

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