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From: hendler@dormouse.cs.umd.edu (Jim Hendler)
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Subject: Re: Menu-Based Natural Language Understanding
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Date: 6 Dec 90 02:50:08 GMT
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Before there is any follow-on, I was peripherally involved in the
original development of the NL Menu work while at TI.  The work was
done by the folks who authored the original paper (Tennant, et al) and
not by me.  I did, years ago, do some grumbling about the way the
program was originally managed, but via the grapevine this somehow
became a rumor that I was claiming ownership or such.  No such thing
occurred and the developers of the program deserve the credit they
got.

An alternative to NL Menu, one which did completions and some other
nifty stuff to typed text, was developed by Brian Phillips while he
was at Tektronix.  I don't know if this work was published, but it
dealt with some serious inadequacies of the menu-based approach, and
had somewhat more flexibility.  

  -Jim Hendler


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