Publication in BibTeX Format

@TECHREPORT{AICPub653:1983,
  AUTHOR={Martin, Paul and Appelt, Douglas and Pereira, Fernando},
  TITLE={Transportability and Generality In A Natural-Language Interface System},
  ADDRESS={333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025},
  INSTITUTION={AI Center, SRI International},
  MONTH={Nov},
  NUMBER={293},
  YEAR={1983},
  ABSTRACT={This paper describes the design of a transportable natural language
     (NL) interface to databases and the constraints that transportability places
     on each components of such a system. By a transportable NL system, we mean
     an NL processing system that is constructed so that a domain expert (rather
     than an AI or linguistics expert) can move the system to a new application
     domain. After discussing the general problems presented by transportability,
     this paper describes TEAM (an acronym for Transportable English database Access
     Medium), a demonstratable prototype of such a system. The discussion of TEAM
     shows how domain-independent and domain-dependent information can be separated
     in the different components of an NL interface system, and presents one method
     of obtaining domain-specific information from a domain expert.}
}