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From: mzc@cs.nott.ac.uk (Marcus Cripps)
Subject: Simple NLU System wanted !
Message-ID: <1995Mar20.144913.29997@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Summary: Simple NLU system required
Keywords: NLU, C++  
Organization: Nottingham University
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 14:49:13 GMT
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Does anyone know of any simple NLU systems available
over the Internet?

We are just starting a project (The Designer's Apprentive,
http://tawny.cs.nott.ac.uk/apprentice ) which will feature
a natural language interface. 

The system will be used by draughtsmen when designing
objects on a drawing board and will enable the user to
interact with the system through speech, menus, cursive
script and hand-printed text recognition. The range of
commands to be understood will be small due to the 
restricted domain (e.g. "could you move the square to
the right by 20cm" ) and will be mapped onto a standard
command language that we shall define

e.g.  MOVE SQUARE ( +0.2, 0 )

Although speech recognition still isn't too hot, we're 
hoping that usable systems will become available over 
the next few years. In the meantime, we want to develop
a NLU system that takes a text string as input.

Does anyone know of a NLU system available ( pref. over the
Internet and written in C/C++) that could be adapted for
our system?

Thanks for any help

Marcus

mzc@cs.nott.ac.uk



that takes written text as input.
