A system for the semiautomatic generation of E-R models from natural language specifications

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-81

  Gomez, Fernando ^a   Segami, Carlos ^b   Delaune, Carl ^c  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Automated logical database design; Natural language; Rule based system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032762581     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(98)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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