Developing natural language interfaces through NALIGE

Author

Manaris, Bill Z. ; Glanville, Robert ; Gillis, Timothy E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Southwestern Louisiana Univ., Lafayette, LA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

6-9 Nov 1994

Firstpage

260

Lastpage

266

Abstract

The paper discusses the development of natural language interfaces to interactive computer systems through the NALIGE user interface management system. Such an activity is reduced to producing a set of well-formed specifications which describe lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the selected application domain. These specifications are converted by NALIGE to an autonomous natural language interface that exhibits the prescribed linguistic and functional behavior. The development of a natural language interface to Unix and its subsequent porting to MS-DOS, VAX/VMS, and VM/CMS is presented. Finally, the development of a natural language interface for Internet navigation and resource location is discussed

Keywords

interactive systems; natural language interfaces; natural languages; operating systems (computers); user interface management systems; Internet navigation; MS-DOS; NALIGE user interface management system; Unix; VAX/VMS; VM/CMS; application domain; autonomous natural language interface; functional behavior; interactive computer systems; linguistic behavior; natural language interface design; pragmatic aspects; resource location; well-formed specifications; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Computer science; Internet; Natural languages; Navigation; Operating systems; Telecommunication computing; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1994. Proceedings., Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6785-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1994.346482

Filename

346482