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  <Title>DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT NATURAL LANGUAGE INTI~tFACES:</Title>
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DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT
NATURAL LANGUAGE INTI~tFACES:
SESSION INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> I n By c o ~ m e n t s , l w i l l t r y t o s u m m a r i z e briefly the six papers in thls session, pointing out sow key aspects of each contrtbutlon, listing some common t h e m e s , a n d r a i s i n g some q u e s t i o n s , n o t f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f criticizing one o r a n o t h e r c o n t r i b u t i o n , but rather for the purpose of prodding the authors to discuss these questions in their presentations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The s i x p a p e r s are(alphabetically) i n the s e s s i o n [GHF]:A r o b u s t p o r t a b l e NL i n t e r f a c e is daecribad, the portability e v a l u c e d with r e s p e c t t o two a p p l i c a t i o n d o m a i n s . The Inlttal p r o c e s s i n g i s b a s e d on t h e L i n g u i s t i c String Parser. The d o m a i n d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n is c h a r a c t e r i z e d by d o m a i n i n f o r m a t i o n s c h e a a which s p e c i f y t h e correspondences between information structures i n t h e t e x t s and t h e v a r i o u s i n t e r n a l representations. Hodularity of design is emphasized for achieving portability and managing c o m p l e x i t y .</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> I . [GJN] J.M. f l n s p a r g , A r o b u s t and portable natural language data base interface. 2. [GHF] R. C r i s h m a n , L. R i r s c h a a n , and C . F r i e d m t n , I s o l a t i n g d o m a i n d e p e n d e n c i e s in n a t u r a l l a n g u a g e i n t e r f a c e s . 3. [GRO] B.J. O r o s z , Team: A transportable natural language interface system. 4. [TB] M. T e m p l e t o o and J . Burger, Problems i n n a t u r a l l a n g u a g e i n t e r f a c e s to DBMS:a retrospective view of the EUFID system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> 5; [TT] B.H. Thompson and F.B. Thompson, [ncroduclng ASK, a simple knowledgeable system. 6. [GT] G. Guide and C. Tasso, IR-NLI: an expert natural language interface to online d a t a bases.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> [GRO]:The m a j o r t h e m i s t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n of transportable NL i n t e r f a c e s . A unique f e a t u r e o f t h e TEA}{ s y s t e m i s t h e i n t e r a c t i v e facllty for acquiring information for adapting gL i n t e r f a c e s t o d a t a bases f o r w h i c h t h e y were n o t h a n d t a i l o r e d . The DIALOGIC s y s t e m c o n s t r u c t s a l o g i c a l f o r m f o r t h e q u e r y and the data base access system translates the logical form Into a data base query. Transportability is achieved by factoring the domain dependant and domain independent information. Soma acquisitional and control stracegles are also discussed.</Paragraph>
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