Human-Computer Interaction for Semantic Disambiguation

Topics: User Interaction, Disambiguation text (either in a natural language or in a formal language) and an augmentor module that bridges the two and facilitates the involvement of a human in the processing loop. The background knowledge for such a Abstract system consists of an ontological domain model, a 1 We describe a semi-automatic semantic disgrammar and a machine-tractable dictionary (MTD) for ambiguator integrated in a knowledge-based machine each natural language involved in either analysis or translation system. It is used to bridge the analysis and generation. generation stages in machine translation. The user inWe will concentrate on the augmentor module, terface of the disambiguator is built on mouse-based which consists of a human-computer interface with a multiple-selection menus. dialog manager and a set of automatic semantic analysis components. The composition of the automatic com