Natural language communication with pictorial information systems
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Leonard Bolc.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin ; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1984
SERIES
Series Title
Symbolic computation., Artificial intelligence.
GENERAL NOTES
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Cataloging based on CIP information.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Query languages for Pictorial Database System --; The Design of SWYSS, a Dialogue System for Scene Analysis --; Language-Picture Question-Answering through Common Semantic Representation and its Application to the World of Weather Report --; ILIAD --; A high Level Dialogue System for Picture Analysis.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book contains the reports of selected projects involving natural language commu℗Ư nication with pictorial information systems. More than just a record of research results, however, it presents concrete applications to the solution of a wide variety of problems. The authors are all prominent figures in the field whose authoritative contributions help ensure its continued expansion in both size and significance. Y.C. Lee and K S. Fu (Purdue University, USA) survey picture query languages which form an interface between the pictorial database system and the user and support infor℗Ư mation retrieval, data entry and manipulation, data analysis and output generation. They include explicit picture query languages that augment alphanumeric data query langua℗Ư ges as well as languages and command sets which are implicitly embedded in a pictorial information system but perform similar functions. It is worth mentioning that some forms of query languages can be transformed from a given set of natural language senten℗Ư ces by using ATN (Augmented Transition Networks), which consequently allows for na℗Ư turallanguage communication with information system.