Learning semantic parsers: An important but under-studied problem

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 39-44

  Mooney, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC PARSING SHELL; INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ILP); LEARNING SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 22344451004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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