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The paper describes the general framework of the EASY-LINK system: an expert interface in Italian natural language, which allows an intelligent interrogation of the economic, territorial, statistical data bank “SUPERSTAT” developed by SARIN.
After a discussion on the problems of misuse of statistical packages by naive-user and on the challenge for Artificial Intelligence techniques in statistics, attention is focused on the system’s capabilities and architecture.
Our approach is to increase the user’s gain by making the computer’s response more informative, and hence to reduce his uncertainty about his problem.
The system consists of two modules: the natural language interface and the expert system on data bank enquiry integrated in an only system where processing takes place in a cooperative way.
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Lella, G., Pavan, S., Bucci, P. (1986). Easy-Link: An Expert Natural Language Interface to a Statistical Data Bank. In: De Antoni, F., Lauro, N., Rizzi, A. (eds) COMPSTAT. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46890-2_64
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