Using semantic templates for a natural language interface to the CINDI virtual library

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-19

  Stratica, Niculae ^a   Kosseim, Leila ^a   Desai, Bipin C ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

CINDI; Natural language interface; Natural language processing; Relational data base; Semantic analysis; Syntactic analysis

Indexed keywords

CINDI; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RELATIONAL DATA BASE; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; TEMPLATE-BASED SYSTEMS;

DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23344454520     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.12.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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