Aspects of an intelligent interface that provides natural language access to a large body of
data distributed over a computer network are described. The overall system architecture is …

A major problem faced by would-be users of computer systems is that computers generally
make use of special-purpose languages familiar only to those trained in computer science. …

This note describes LIFER, a practical facility for creating natural language interfaces to
other computer software. Emphasizing human engineering, LIFER has bundled natural …

This report presents a broad-brush description of the basic goals and philosophy of a research
program at SRI International SRI aimed at developing the technology needed to support …

… ASSOCIATIVE NETWORKS ENCODING KNOWLEDGE IN PARTITIONED NETWORKS Gary
G. Hendrix ABSTRACT This chapter discusses network notations for encoding a number of …

The problem addressed in this paper is how to enable a computer system to acquire facts
about new domains from tutors who are experts in their respective fields, but who have little or …

The DIALOGIC system translates English sentences into representations of their literal meaning
in the context of an utterance. These representations, or" lngical forms," are intended to …

We describe a knowledge representation scheme called K-NHT and a problem solving system
called SNIFFER designed to answer queries using a K-NET knowledge base. K-NtT uses …

An augmentation of semantic networks is presented in which the various nodes and arcs
are partitioned into "net spaces." These net spaces delimit the scopes of quantified variables, …

Over the years the psychology of belief and the semantics of belief sentences have provided
a seemingly endless series of fascinating problems for linguists, psychologists, and …