Semantic analysis in the automation of ER modelling through natural language processing

2006 International Conference on Computing and Informatics, ICOCI '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Omar, N ^a   Hanna, P ^b   Mc Kevitt, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ER-MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE SPECIFICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RECALL AND PRECISION; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTIC-LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 71249164264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOCI.2006.5276559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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