Towards building robust natural language interfaces to databases

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

Volumn 5039 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 187-198

  Minock, Michael ^a   Olofsson, Peter ^a   Näslund, Alexander ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY;

AUTHORING TOOLS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; HEIDELBERG (CO); HIGHER ORDER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE (NLI); NATURAL LANGUAGES; SYNCHRONOUS GRAMMARS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 47749121071     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69858-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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