History
Prototype Nl interfaces had already appeared in the late sixties and early seventies.
- Lunar, a natural language interface to a database containing chemical analyses of Apollo-11 moon rocks by William A. Woods.
- Chat-80 transformed English questions into Prolog expressions, which were evaluated against the Prolog database. The code of Chat-80 was circulated widely, and formed the basis of several other experimental Nl interfaces.
- Janus is also one of the few systems to support temporal questions.
- Intellect from Trinzic (formed by the merger of AICorp and Aion).
- BBN’s Parlance built on experience from the development of the Rus and Irus systems.
- IBM Languageaccess
- Q&A from Symantec.
- Datatalker from Natural Language Inc.
- Loqui from Bim.
- English Wizard from Linguistic Technology Corporation.
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