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An on-line question-answering systems with natural language and pictorial input

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ACM '68: Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM national conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/800186.810577

Published: 01 January 1968 Publication History

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Various approaches have been employed in the design of question-answering systems with natural language input. An excellent survey of such systems can be found in Simmons.¹ A more recent and critical survey of data-retrieval systems prepared by Kasher points out what he considers to be some of the major weaknesses of previous work. One of the problems cited by Kasher is the difficulty of dealing with the inherent ambiguity of natural language. In this paper we will propose a technique for dealing with syntactic ambiguity that involves the use of a restricted semantic universe of discourse. The universe of discourse is defined by means of a graphic display console. We will show by means of an example taken from the area of electrical circuits how this technique can be used to resolve syntactic ambiguity.

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Ortiz Costa JKulkarni A(2018)Leveraging Knowledge Graph for Open-Domain Question Answering2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)10.1109/WI.2018.00-63(389-394)Online publication date: Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-63
Lockemann P(2005)Data base user languages for the non-programmerData Base Systems10.1007/3-540-07612-3_7(183-212)Online publication date: 23-May-2005
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07612-3_7
Lockemann P(2005)Information systems: A survey by examplesGI — 5. Jahrestagung10.1007/3-540-07410-4_617(3-34)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2005
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07410-4_617
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An on-line question-answering systems with natural language and pictorial input
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Natural language interfaces
2. Information systems

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Ortiz Costa JKulkarni A(2018)Leveraging Knowledge Graph for Open-Domain Question Answering2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)10.1109/WI.2018.00-63(389-394)Online publication date: Dec-2018
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https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07612-3_7
Lockemann P(2005)Information systems: A survey by examplesGI — 5. Jahrestagung10.1007/3-540-07410-4_617(3-34)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2005
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