Constructing a generic natural language interface for an XML database

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3896 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 737-754

  Li, Yunyao ^a   Yang, Huahai ^b   Jagadish, H V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; XML;

GRAMMATICAL PROXIMITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; XML DATABASE;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33745634103     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11687238_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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