Natural Language Communication with Pictoral Information Systems

BOLC, Leonard (ed)

ISBN 10: 3540134786 / ISBN 13: 9783540134787

Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1984

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327 p; 67 Fig. [SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION].

Seller Inventory # 013018

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natural Language Communication with Pictoral Information Systems
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540134786
• ISBN 13: 9783540134787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • Informatik / Computer Science

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Synopsis

This book contains the reports of selected projects involving natural language commu- nication with pictorial information systems. More than just a record of research results, however, it presents concrete applications to the solution of a wide variety of problems. The authors are all prominent figures in the field whose authoritative contributions help ensure its continued expansion in both size and significance. Y. C. Lee and K S. Fu (Purdue University, USA) survey picture query languages which form an interface between the pictorial database system and the user and support infor- mation retrieval, data entry and manipulation, data analysis and output generation. They include explicit picture query languages that augment alphanumeric data query langua- ges as well as languages and command sets which are implicitly embedded in a pictorial information system but perform similar functions. It is worth mentioning that some forms of query languages can be transformed from a given set of natural language senten- ces by using ATN (Augmented Transition Networks), which consequently allows for na- turallanguage communication with information system.