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SAD SAM(ID:3359/sad001)

Basic English querying system 

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Country: United States
Designed 1962
Published: 1963
Genus: Ad hoc query languages
Sammet category: Business Data Processing

for Sentence Appraiser and Diagrammer and Semantic Analyzing Machine

Lindsay's natural language programming system written in IPL-V at Carnegie in 1962/3. Worked only on Basic English (ref Ogden) and was chiefly concerned with representing genealogy.
Related languages
IPL-V → SAD SAM   Written using
References:
  • Lindsay, Robert K. (1963) Lindsay, Robert K. "Inferential memory as the basis of machines which understand natural language"
          in Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) (1963) Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) "Computers and Thought" MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1963
  • Bobrow (1964) Bobrow, D.G. "Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem Solving System", Report MAC-TR-1, Project MAC, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., June 1964 Online copy pdf ps Abstract Extract: Introduction Extract: SAD SAM
          in Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) (1963) Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) "Computers and Thought" MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1963
  • Simmons (1964) Simmons, R.F., "Answering English Questions by Computer - A Survey" SDC Report SP-1536 Santa Monica, Calif.; April, 1964
          in Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) (1963) Feigenbaum, E. and Feldman, J. (eds.) "Computers and Thought" MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1963
  • Simmons, R. F. (1965) Simmons, R. F. "Answering English questions by computer: a survey" p53-70 Abstract DOI Extract: SAD SAM
          in [ACM] (1965) [ACM] CACM 8(01) Jan 1965
  • Sammet, Jean E. (1969) Sammet, Jean E. "Computer Languages - Principles and History" Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1969. p.669
          in [ACM] (1965) [ACM] CACM 8(01) Jan 1965
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