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We present a natural language interface for Japanese that relies on semantically driven parsing in that it applies syntactic analysis only if necessary for disambiguation. For this purpose we utilize a categorial parser which also analyzes incomplete or ungrammatical input efficiently. The complete linguistic analysis is performed by means of deductive object-oriented database (DOOD) technology so that we achieve an integrated framework with the target application. The interface has been applied successfully to the question support facilities of the VIENA Classroom hypermedia teaching system.
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Winiwarter, W., Kagawa, O., Kambayashi, Y. (1996). Syntactic disambiguation by using categorial parsing in a DOOD framework. In: Görz, G., Hölldobler, S. (eds) KI-96: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61708-6_77
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