Simmons, R. F. "Answering English questions by computer: a survey" p53-70

(1965)

[ACM] (1965) [ACM] CACM 8(01) Jan 1965  

Languages mentioned

  • BASEBALL {1961} Constrained natural language for querying attribute value pairs
  • DEACON {1962} English-like query system
  • FLEX {1960} Intermediate language for the ALA system
  • IDL {1962} Information Description Language
  • KLS II {1963} Knotted List Structures with enhancements
  • Namer {1964} Graphically oriented data retrieval language
  • PLM {1957} Graphically oriented data retrieval language
  • Protosynthex {1960} Querying system for English test
  • QUERY {1962} Near natural language querying system
  • SAD SAM {1962} Basic English querying system
  • SQA {1962}
  • The Conversational Machine {1959}
  • The General Inquirer {1962} Special input language for Harvard information retrieval system
  • The Oracle {1960} Early QA system