Natural language querying for video databases

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2534-2552

  Erozel, Guzen ^a   Cicekli, Nihan Kesim ^a   Cicekli, Ilyas ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conceptual ontology; Content based querying in video databases; Information extraction; Link parser; Natural language querying

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING;

CONCEPTUAL ONTOLOGY; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING; VIDEO DATABASES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 41749119145     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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