A form-based natural language front-end to a CIM database

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 238-250

  Adam, Nabil R ^a,b   Gangopadhyay, Aryya ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4GL; Database management system; Natural language processing; Query processing; User interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

GRAMMAR RULES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0031100350     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.591449     Document Type: Article

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