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Framework for a Portable Natural - Language Interface to Large Data Bases

by Konolige, Kurt

Technical Note 197
Institution: AI Center, SRI International
Address: 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Oct 1979.

Note: SRI Project 7910. Preparation of this paper was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract N00039-79-C-0118 with the Naval Electronics Systems Command.

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Abstract

A framework is proposed for developing a portable natural language interface to large data bases. A discussion of problems arising from portability leads to the identification of a key a concept of the framework: a conceptual schema for representing a user’s model of the domain as distinct from the data base schema. The notions of conceptual completeness and linguistic coverage are shown to be natural consequences of this framework. An implementation of the framework, called D-LADDER, is presented, and some preliminary performance results reported.

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