sxl@edsdrd.eds.com (Sanggoo Lee) (04/17/91)
This is a summary of information that I gathered on natural language products that are database application oriented. It is in no way meant to be extensive or exhaustive. Descriptions of some systems have never been verified with the actual developer. Type of entries --------------- C : Commercial system (Mostly for sale, but some are for internal use) NC: NonCommercial system (Public domain or available under license with not-for-profit fees) B: Book ==== N L S Y S T E M S === ------------------------------------------------------------------- Name/Organization Type Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------- Intellect C NL DB interface. Has been around for AI Corp, Watham, MA a while so runs against bunch of DBMSs. EasyTalk C NL DB interface. Refer to book by Steve Intelligent Bus. Sys Schwartz. New Haven, CT Natural Language C NL DB interface. Runs on Rdb, Ingres, Natural Language Inc. Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Sharebase. Berkeley, CA (415) 841-3500 Q & A C Based on LIFER technology. SYMANTEC Corp. Cupertino, CA (408) 253-9600 Parlance C NL DB interface. BBN, Cambridge, MA Probably based/improved/etc on LUNAR and (617) 873-5412 IRUS. Bibliographic C Possible to adapt to English. enquiries in NL (French) Some other NL projects are currently CAP GEMINI INNOVATION under way at CAP GEMINI. Paris, France +33 (1) 40 54 66 25 Penman NC English sentence/paragraph generator from USC/ISI, Marina del Rey, input specifications of non-linguistic CA (213) 822-1511 kind. TEAM NC NL DB interface. SRI has a long list of SRI International, NL systems, some of which make up TEAM. Menlo Park, CA Only a few are listed here. (415) 326-6200 CL-PATR NC A portable NL grammar development env. SRI International Dialogic NC A system for syntactic analysis and SRI International semantic translation of English sentences. ShopTalk NC A NL/Graphical Interface. SRI International CLE NC Core Language Engine. SRI International LIFER NC NL interface building tool. No longer SRI International supported (nor exists, maybe). FrameKit NC A frame-based knowledge-representation Carnegie Mellon U. system with multiple inheritance, a Pittsburgh, PA viewpoint mechanism, etc. RuleKit NC The next generation rule-based system Carnegie Mellon U. after OPS5. XCALIBUR NC NL interface to Digital's XSEL expert sys. Carnegie Mellon U. TOMITA NC Not sure whether this is a parsing tool Carnegie Mellon U. based on the parsing algorithm by Tomita. Natural Language B Haven't checked the book myself, but a Processing: A computer netter recommends it. grammar of English and its application, by Naomi Sager Addison-Wesley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Much thanks to the following contributers; David Grossman (grossman@eola.cs.ucf.edu) Eduard Hovy (hovy@venera.isi.edu) Sriram .... (sriram@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) David Masterson (davidm@cimshop) Eric Bilange (bilange.capsogeti.fr) Eli Gur (gurel@bimacs.bitnet) Madeleine Bates (bates@bbn.com) Robert Moore (bmoore@ai.sri.com) Stephen Pulman (sgp@cam.sri.com) Jung Kim (kim@phoenix.ils.nwu.edu) Radha Rao (rdr@nl.cs.cmu.edu)