The economics of natural language interfaces: Natural language processing technology as a scarce resource

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-159

  Conlon, Sumali J ^a   Conlon, John R ^a   James, Tabitha L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Database management systems; Economics of information systems; Natural language interfaces; Network externalities

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; USER INTERFACES;

MODEL BASES; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4243144037     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(03)00096-4     Document Type: Article

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