Accomodating domain-independence—a new approach to the development of general natural language interfaces

✍ Scribed by Du Xing; Xie Li

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 711 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-1976
• DOI: 10.1016/0952-1976(92)90053-m

✦ Synopsis

This paper proposes a domain-independent approach to constructing natural language interfaces for applications. Domain independence provides generality to natural language interfaces. A hierarchical structure for natural language processing and a representation language, the Intermediate Carrier Language, are introduced. A special phase of natural language processing called domain compiling is also proposed and described. To assess and improve this approach, an experimental natural language interface KZ2/TZJ has been developed. This serves as the common Chinese interface for both Unix and Vi. Unix and 1/7 were chosen as KZ2/TZJ's applications because they belong to different kinds of application categories and using them may give a fair evaluation of the approach. Experimental results indicate that this approach is a good candidate for developing general natural language interfaces.