tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "BRINGING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO THE MICRO COMPUTER MARKET THE STORY OF Q&A"

This is the story of how one of the new natural language processing products reached the marketplace. On the surface, it is the story of one NL researcherturned-entrepreneur (yours truly) and of one product, Q&A. But this is not just my story: It is in microcosm the story of NL emerging from the confines of the academic world, which in turn is an instance of the old theme "science goes commercial." | BRINGING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO THE MICROCOMPUTER MARKET THE STORY OF Q A Gary G. Hendrix Symantec Corporation 10201 Torre Avenue Cupertino CA 95014 OVERVIEW This is the story of how one of the new natural language processing products reached the marketplace. On the surface it is the story of one NL researcher-turned-entrepreneur yours truly and of one product Q A. But this is not just my story It is in microcosm the story of NL emerging from the confines of the academic world which in turn is an instance of the old theme science goes commercial. BACKGROUND In September of 1985 Symantec introduced its first commercial product Q A. Q A is a 299 integrated business-productivity tool for the IBM PC XT AT and compatibles. It includes a file management system a report generator a word processor a spelling checker and an intelligent assistant or IA. The IA lets users manipulate databases and produce reports by issuing commands or asking questions in English. WHY O A IS IMPORTANT Q A is important to everyone with an interest in natural language processing because it is bringing NL technology to the attention of the world at large. Already Q A is the most widely used NL system ever developed with hundreds of people now using it on a daily basis and thousands using it occasionally. Here is a small sampling of the reaction SoftSel the largest US distributor of microcomputer software publishes a biweekly hot list ranking its best-selling products. At the time of this writing Q A is number 3 on the list below only dBASE III and Lotus 123 with monthly sales in the thousands. Some weeks Q A has actually been above Lotus on the charts. Every major publication addressing the IBM PC market in the . Europe and Australia has written about Q A and their reviews have consistently been favorable. Infoworld gave Q A a 5 disk rating its highest. PC Week has called Q A the quintessential management tool. In the New York Times Q A received an unprecedented 2-part review and it .

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