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From: nicholl@cs.uiuc.edu (Sheldon Nicholl)
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Subject: Re: Menu-Based Natural Language Understanding
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Date: 10 Dec 90 22:17:54 GMT
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Jim Hendler writes:

>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.  


I hope these references are helpful. Best wishes,  --Sheldon Nicholl


Phillips, B. and S. Nicholl (1986) INGLISH: A Natural Language Interface.
   In K. Hopper and I. A. Newman (Eds.), Foundation for 
   Human-Computer Communication. Amsterdam: North-Holland. pp. 7-25.
   Also Technical Report No. CR-85-30, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon.

Phillips, B., M. Freiling, J. Alexander, S. Messick, S. Rehfuss,
   S. Nicholl (1985) An Eclectic Approach to Building Natural Language
   Interfaces. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for
   Computational Linguistics, 8-12 July, University of Chicago. pp. 254-261.