Natural Language Interface Using Shallow Parsing

This paper deals with a natural language interface, which accepts natural language questions as inputs and generates textual responses. In natural language processing, key-word matching based paradigm generate answers, however these answers frequently affected by certain language dependant phenomena such as semantic symmetry and ambiguous modification. Available techniques, described in the literature, deal with these problems using in depth parsing. In this paper, we will present rules to tackle linguistic phenomena using shallow parsing and discuss advantages of a novel Natural Language Interface comprising of shallow parsing based algorithms in conjunction with some intelligent techniques to train the system. Experimental results show that this approach can analyze a wide range of questions with high accuracy and produce reasonable textual responses.