Natural Language Interfaces - Ready for Commercial Success?
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چکیده
The goal of this panel is to evaluate three natural language in terfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 (cf. Carnegie Group 1985, Kamins 1985, Texas Instru ments 1985) and to >'elate them to current research in corn putational linguistics. Each of the commercial systems selected as a starting point for the discussion (see Wahlsler 1986 for a functional comparision) was developed by a well-known scientist with considerable research experience in NL processing: Language Craft T M by Carnegie Group (designed under tile direction of.]. Carboncll), N L M e n u by Texas Instruments (designed untler the direclion of II. Tennant) , and Q & A T M by Symamec (designed under the direction of G. Hendrix).
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