Natural language front-ends to economic models

Abstract

Many users in the business, financial and economic worlds are not trained computer scientists; at best they can handle choice menus, but this limitation excludes to a large extent the flexibility in the selection of goals, of knowledge or of input data which is generally assumed in most knowledge-based systems. For example, none of the 7 sentences from Table 1 could be handled, neither in terms of a form editor, nor for their understanding, by any menu, window or graphical interface.