A phrasal approach to natural language interfaces over databases

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3513, Issue , 2005, Pages 333-336

  Minock, Michael ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

PHRASAL PATTERNS; STEP SYSTEM; TUPLE RELATIONAL CALCULUS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 25144513443     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11428817_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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