Abstract
Natural language processing has two primary roles to play in the storage and retrieval of large bodies of information: providing a friendly, easily‐learned interface to information retrieval systems, and automatically structuring texts so that their information can be more easily processed and retrieved. This article outlines the organization of a natural language interface for data retrieval (a “question—answering system”) and some of the approaches being taken to text structuring. It closes by describing a few of the research issues in computational linguistics and a possibility for using interactive natural language processing for information acquisition.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 291-296 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of the American Society for Information Science |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1984 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering