Towards portable natural language interfaces to knowledge bases - The case of the ORAKEL system

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-354

  Cimiano, Philipp ^a   Haase, Peter ^a   Heizmann, Jörg ^b   Mantel, Matthias ^a   Studer, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Ontoprise GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domain adaptation; Natural language for DKE; Natural language interfaces; Natural language processing; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE FOR DKE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 41149118059     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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