2003 |
Speaking the Users’ Languages (Journal Article) Isard, Amy; Oberlander, Jon; Matheson, Colin; Androutsopoulos, Ion IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume: 18 (1), Pages: 40-45, 2003. @article{Isard2003, title = {Speaking the Users’ Languages}, author = {Amy Isard and Jon Oberlander and Colin Matheson and Ion Androutsopoulos }, url = {http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/docs/ieeeis_speaking_the_users_languages.pdf}, year = {2003}, date = {2003-01-01}, journal = {IEEE Intelligent Systems}, volume = {18}, number = {1}, pages = {40-45}, abstract = {The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ in several ways, from the choice of words used to the complexity of the sentence forms.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ in several ways, from the choice of words used to the complexity of the sentence forms. |
2002 |
Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces (Book) Androutsopoulos, Ion John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN: 9789027249906. @book{Androutsopoulos2002, title = {Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces}, author = {Ion Androutsopoulos}, url = {https://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/nlp.6/main}, doi = {10.1075/nlp.6}, isbn = {9789027249906}, year = {2002}, date = {2002-01-01}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, abstract = {Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database queries to be formulated in natural language. Most of the existing interfaces, however, do not support adequately the notion of time. Drawing upon tense and aspect theories, temporal logics, and temporal databases, this cross-discipline book examines relevant issues from the three areas, developing a unified theoretical framework that can be used to build natural language interfaces to temporal databases. The framework features an HPSG mapping from English to a formally defined meaning representation language, and a corresponding mapping to a temporal extension of the SQL database language. The book is accompanied by a freely available prototype interface, built according to the framework, and implemented using Prolog and ALE. This is the first in-depth exploration of the notion of time in natural language database interfaces. It will be particularly interesting to researchers working on natural language interaction, tense and aspect, HPSG, temporal logics, and temporal databases, especially those who wish to learn about time-related issues in other disciplines.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database queries to be formulated in natural language. Most of the existing interfaces, however, do not support adequately the notion of time. Drawing upon tense and aspect theories, temporal logics, and temporal databases, this cross-discipline book examines relevant issues from the three areas, developing a unified theoretical framework that can be used to build natural language interfaces to temporal databases. The framework features an HPSG mapping from English to a formally defined meaning representation language, and a corresponding mapping to a temporal extension of the SQL database language. The book is accompanied by a freely available prototype interface, built according to the framework, and implemented using Prolog and ALE. This is the first in-depth exploration of the notion of time in natural language database interfaces. It will be particularly interesting to researchers working on natural language interaction, tense and aspect, HPSG, temporal logics, and temporal databases, especially those who wish to learn about time-related issues in other disciplines. |
2000 |
Database Interfaces (Book Chapter) Androutsopoulos, Ion; Ritchie, Graeme R. Dale H. Moisl,; Somers, (Ed.): Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Chapter 9, Pages: 209-240, Marcel Dekker Inc., 2000, ISBN: 0824790006. @inbook{Androutsopoulos2000, title = {Database Interfaces}, author = {Ion Androutsopoulos and Graeme Ritchie}, editor = {R. Dale, H. Moisl, and H. Somers}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=555864}, isbn = {0824790006}, year = {2000}, date = {2000-01-01}, booktitle = {Handbook of Natural Language Processing}, pages = {209-240}, publisher = {Marcel Dekker Inc.}, chapter = {9}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |