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This paper deals with natural language access to knowledge base systems. We present — in theory and in implementation — a deductive knowledge base system which is entirely described in logic and implemented in PROLOG. Our system consists of the knowledge base, of a natural language access module and of an inference component for the deduction of answers to questions.
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Schwind, C.B. (1982). Natural Language Access to Prolog Database Systems. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) GWAI-82. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68826-3_18
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