When Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (the organizer of this COLING-86 panel on "Natural Language Interfaces: Ready for Commercial Success?") sent out invitations to panelists, he stated that his goals were "to evaluate three natural language interfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 and to relate them to current research in computational linguistics." For comparison, he has aske...

A multimodal system for acquiring new objects, updating already known ones, and searching for them is presented. The system is able to learn objects and associate them to speech received from a speech recogniser in a natural and convenient fashion. The learning and retrieval process takes into account information gained from multiple attributes calculated from an image recorded by a standard vi...

This paper proposes a hybrid approach for managing knowledge within companies based on communication between people. In addition to traditional Knowledge Management Systems our concept supports employees not only in finding information but also in establishing contact between the person requesting information and a person or community that can help solve the problem. This hybrid approach consis...

introduction: the information recorded in medical sheets can help us facilitate the treatment process, recognize the quality of performance of the medical staff, plan health care programs and make accurate and appropriate decisions. this study intends to compare the quality of recording information in admission and summary sheets of three hospitals in isfahan in the first six months of 1381. ma...