Natural language querying of databases: An information extraction approach in the conceptual query language

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-492

  Owei, Vesper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

CONCEPTUAL QUERY LANGUAGES (CQL);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034294293     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0381     Document Type: Article

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