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From: jason@harlequin.co.uk (Jason Trenouth)
Subject: Re: Menu Driven NL Interfaces
In-Reply-To: marks@aisb.ed.ac.uk's message of Fri, 5 May 1995 12:12:49 GMT
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In article <D83txD.CFG@aisb.ed.ac.uk> marks@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Mark Stevenson) writes:

Mark> Does anyone have any recent information regarding Menu-Driven
Mark> Natural Language interfaces? I have some conference papers from
Mark> around 1983 but I would like to see which recent developments
Mark> have been made in this area.

If you are interested in commercial menu driven NL interfaces to
databases:

Harlequin developed a product called HyperQuery in the early 90's.

Esperant is a more recent product from Software AG (reviewed in
the Feb'95 issue of Byte).



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