Simplifying syntactic and semantic parsing of NL-based queries in advanced application domains

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-58

  Kapetanios, E ^a   Baer, D ^a   Groenewoud, P ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automata theory; Databases; Information retrieval; Natural languages; Ontologies; Query languages; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MIDDLEWARE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; MDDQL; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC PARSING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 23344452735     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.11.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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