The rapid increase of biomedical literature available on the web has made it increasingly difficult to find precise information. To implement an accurate biomedical information retrieval (IR) system, we must deal with the variants of biomedical terms carefully. In this paper, we focus on the generation of aliases, synonyms, acronyms, and lexical variants of such terms. In addition, we also prop...

An intelligent natural language interface based on Turkish Language is designed for creating Java class skeleton, listing the class and its members. This interface is developed as a part of a project named as TUJA, a tool for producing Java programs using Turkish sentences. Turkish sentences are converted into instances of schemata, representing classes and their members. Concept hierarchies ar...

In this paper we propose a new method to express quantifica-tion and especially quantifier scope in French generation. Our approach is based on two points: the identification of the sentence components between which quantifier scope can indeed be expressed and a mechanism to reinforce the expression of quantifier scope. This approach is being integrated in a written French generator , called He...

This paper introduces a new confidence scoring mechanism which takes advantage of the semantic parsing provided by a natural language understanding system. As a result, different segments of the user input which fill individual semantic slots are identified and individual semantic slot confidence scores are generated. With slot-based confidence scores, each individual slot receives a confidence...

We consider the problem of robots following natural language commands through previously unknown outdoor environments. A robot receives commands in natural language, such as “Navigate around the building to the car left of the fire hydrant and near the tree.” The robot needs first to classify its surrounding objects into categories, using images obtained from its sensors. The result of this cla...

The paper addresses the question of how an English language user interface will be understood by users from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds and provides some answers from the study of second language acquisition and the practice of language teaching and learning. It is accepted that for a number of reasons, translation of an English interface into other languages is not always fea...

The Speech Graffiti interface is designed to be a portable, transparent interface for spoken language interaction with simple machines and information servers. Because it is a subset language, users must learn and adhere to the constraints of the language. We conducted a user study to determine habitability and found that more than 80% of utterances were Speech Graffiti-grammatical, suggesting ...

The complexity of" current soft.ware applications is overwhelming users. The need exists for inteUigent interface agents to address the problems of increasing taskload that is overwhelming the hunloax user. Interface agents could help alleviate user taskload by extracting and analyzing relevant information, and providing information abstractions of that informatiou, and providing timely, benefi...

In this paper we present a multilingual natural language interface architecture, which can be used for accessing on line product catalogs and lets users formulate their queries in their native languages. In our interface architecture a rule based machinelearning module replaces an elaborate semantic analysis component. The learning module learns the correct mappings of a user’s input to the cor...