This paper describes the design and implementation of Ubiquity, a multilingual textual interface for the Firefox browser developed at Mozilla Labs. The Ubiquity interface facilitates rapid information retrieval and task execution in the browser, leveraging existing open web APIs. The importance of offering equivalent user experiences for speakers of different languages is reflected in the desig...

In this paper, we present linguistic techniques required for natural language driven knowledge management interfaces. We describe two significant aspects of such an interface: First, how the user input is handled to provide an unrestricted natural language user interface, and second, how the gathered knowledge should be preprocessed, classified and thus prepared for a natural language interacti...

The ordinary GIS systems use command line, menu or window interface, which are difficult for a naïve user to use. In this paper, SNePS (the Semantic Network Processing System) is used to represent geographic spatial knowledge. An intelligent naturallanguage interface between ArcView and SNePS (the Semantic Network Processing System) was implemented. The interface will accept the input command a...

There are many different programming languages and each language has its own structure or way of writing the code, it becomes difficult to learn frequently switch between languages. Due this reason, a person working with multiple needs look at documentations which costs time effort. In past few years, there have been significant increase in amount papers published on topic, providing unique sol...

A majo r b e n e f i t of u s i n g n a t u r a l l anguage to a c c e s s the i n f o r m a t i o n in a d a t a b a s e i s t h a t i t shifts onto the system the burden of m e d i a t i n g between two views of the d a t a : the way in which the da ta i s s t o r e d ( t h e " d a t a b a s e v i e w " ) , and the way in which an e n d u s e r t h i n k s abou t i t ( t h e " u s e r * s v i...

Through practical implementation of the components of a natural language interface to a virtual environment (VE), we investigate the requirements of such a system in terms of natural language understanding, spatial knowledge and reasoning, and human-computer interaction. In this project, we step through the process of creating a set of tools necessary for a natural language interface to a restr...

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 lit...

Although natural language technology has achieved a high degree of domain independence through separating domain-independent modules from domain-dependent knowledge bases, portability, as measured by effort to move from one application to another, is still a problem. Here we describe a knowledge acquisition tool (KNACQ) that has sharply decreased our effort in building knowledge bases. The know...

Considering the problems we have in communicating with other h~rmans using natural language, it is not clear that we want to recreate these problems in dealing with the computer. While there is some evidence that natural language is useful in communications among humans, there is also considerable evidence that it is neither perfect nor ideal. Natural language is wordy (redundant) and imprecise...

Humans express their needs almost effortlessly in natural language, and for this reason, constructing machines that can reliably respond to natural language requests has been a longstanding and significant goal in the design of intelligent systems. Early successes—for example, the LUNAR system of Woods, Kaplan, and Nash-Webber (1972); the LADDER system of Hendrix, Sacerdoti, Sagalowicz, and Slo...