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This chapter illustrates the difficulties of product development in the natural language interface area by describing experience with the End-User Friendly Interface to Data Management (EUFID). EUFID was designed to be both application and DBMS independent. Although most design goals were met, several limitations in application development facilities, cooperative language processing, and DBMS capabilities prevented successful product development. A set of functional requirements for marketable natural language query systems is derived and a checklist for evaluating the potential of a given systems is presented.
A previous version of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Natural-Language Processing, Santa Monica, California, February 1–3, 1983. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Naval Research Laboratory.
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Templeton, M., Burger, J. (1986). Considerations for the Development of Natural-Language Interfaces to Database Management Systems. In: Bolc, L., Jarke, M. (eds) Cooperative Interfaces to Information Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82815-7_3
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