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Isolating domain dependencies in natural language interfaces

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ANLC '83: Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing

Pages 46 - 53

https://doi.org/10.3115/974194.974202

Published: 01 February 1983 Publication History

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Isolating the domain-dependent information within a large natural language system offers the general advantages of modular design and greatly enhances the portability of the system to new domains. We have explored the problem of isolating the domain dependencies within two large natural language systems, one for generating a tabular data base from text ("information formatting"), the other for retrieving information from a data base. We describe the <u>domain information schema</u> which is used to capture the domain-specific information, and indicate how this information is used throughout the two systems.

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Marsh E(1984)A computational analysis of complex noun phrases in Navy messagesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980599(505-508)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
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Grishman RNhan NMarsh EHirschman L(1984)Automated determination of sublanguage syntactic usageProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980514(96-100)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/980491.980514

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2. Hardware
  1. Power and energy
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ANLC '83: Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing

February 1983

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Marsh E(1984)A computational analysis of complex noun phrases in Navy messagesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980599(505-508)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/980491.980599
Grishman RNhan NMarsh EHirschman L(1984)Automated determination of sublanguage syntactic usageProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/980491.980514(96-100)Online publication date: 2-Jul-1984
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