A data management strategy for transportable natural language interfaces

By transportability of a natural language interface (NLI) we mean the ease with which it can be customized to a new domain and database by the database administrator as opposed to a linguistic expert. Next‐generation database systems (Genesis, Exodus, Starburst) are expansible to support a variety of applications each of which may use a different knowledge representation strategy. an enhanced architecture for natural language interfaces is presented that takes advantage of expansible next‐generation database systems to facilitate transportability. A two‐pass strategy for transportability is required within the enhanced architecture. On the first pass the NLI builds a representation space to facilitate its own transportability. On the second pass a transportability solution (viewed as a learning task) occurs in that representation space. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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