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Cooperative Interfaces to Information Systems

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Leonard Bolc

    1. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

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  2. Matthias Jarke

    1. Fachbereich Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. 11, Germany

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Part of the book series: Topics in Information Systems (TINF)

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Tools for Cooperative Man-Machine Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. DIAGRAM: A Grammar for Dialogues

      • Jane J. Robinson
      Pages 3-43

    3. An Engine for Intelligent Graphics

      • Frank Zdybel
      Pages 45-63

  3. Evaluation of Domain-Independent Database Access Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Considerations for the Development of Natural-Language Interfaces to Database Management Systems

      • Marjorie Templeton, John Burger
      Pages 67-99

    3. Studies in the Evaluation of a Domain-Independent Natural Language Query System

      • Matthias Jarke, Jürgen Krause, Yannis Vassiliou
      Pages 101-130

    4. An Interactive Customization Program for a Natural Language Database Query System

      • Fred J. Damerau
      Pages 131-139

  4. Development of Knowledge-Based Natural Language Access Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. The Semantics-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases

      • Jürgen M. Janas
      Pages 143-188

    3. Talking it Over: The Natural Language Dialog System HAM-ANS

      • Wolfgang Hoeppner, Katharina Morik, Heinz Marburger
      Pages 189-258

    4. An Expert Interface for Effective Man-Machine Interaction

      • Giorgio Brajnik, Giovanni Guida, Carlo Tasso
      Pages 259-308

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 309-330
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Information systems are large repositories of factual and inferential knowledge intended to be queried and maintained by a wide variety of users with different backgrounds and work tasks. The community of potential information system users is growing rapidly with advances in hardware and software technology that permit computer/communications support for more and more application areas. Unfortunately, it is often felt that progress in user interface technology has not quite matched that of other areas. Technical solutions such as computer graphics, natural language processing, or man-machine-man communications in office systems are not enough by themselves. They should be complemented by system features that ensure cooperative behavior of the interfaces, thus reducing the training and usage effort required for successful interaction. In analogy to a human dialog partner, we call an interface cooperative if it does not just accept user requests passively or answer them literally, but actively attempts to understand the users' intentions and to help them solve their applica­ tion problems. This leads to the central question addressed by this book: What makes an information systems interface cooperative, and how do we provide capabilities leading to cooperative interfaces? Many answers are possible. A first aspect concerns the formulation and accep­ tance of user requests. Many researchers assume that such requests should be formulated in natural language.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

    Leonard Bolc

  • Fachbereich Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. 11, Germany

    Matthias Jarke

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