Natural Language Interfaces: Part 1 Basic Theory and Practice

Bonnie Webber and Tim Finin

August 17, 1982

For users communicating with computers, natural language holds the promise of adaptability, immediacy, and effectiveness. Few situations would not be enhanced by the ability to express a problem or question in Natural Language and to be answered in the same fashion. The degree to which this promise is fulfilled, however, depends on developments in several areas: language and text analysis, user modeling, domain modeling, task modeling, discourse modeling, reasoning, and knowledge representation. This tutorial will identify the various roles that natural language can play in user-system interactions, describe some current and near-term applications, and explain the various technical issues that are being addressed in developing Natural Language interfaces.

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Tags: aaai-82, ai, atn, natural language processing, tutorial notes, tutorial

Type: Misc

Note: Notes from a tutorial given by Bonnie Webber and Tim Finin on August 17, 1982, at the Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in August 1982.

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