Semiautomatic acquisition of semantic structures for understanding domain-specific natural language queries

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 172-180

  Meng, Helen M ^a,b   Siu, Kai Chung ^b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Concepts extraction; Grammar induction; Knowledge acquisition; Natural language understanding; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTS EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY; SEMANTIC STRUCTURES; SEMIAUTOMATIC ACQUISITION; SEMIAUTOMATIC GRAMMAR INDUCTION; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0036187473     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.979980     Document Type: Article

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