Conversation-based natural language interface to relational databases

Proceedings - 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-367

  Owda, Majdi ^a   Bandar, Zuhair ^a   Crockett, Keeley ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; HEALTH RISKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MAPS; TECHNOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DIALOGUE FLOW; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GOAL ORIENTED; INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NEW APPROACHES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; RELATIONAL DATABASES; ROAD MAPS; SPECIFIC DOMAIN; WEB INTELLIGENCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 48149114902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIIATW.2007.4427608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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