Computing intensional answers to questions - An inductive logic programming approach

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-278

  Cimiano, Philipp ^a   Rudolph, Sebastian ^b   Hartfiel, Helena ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Lindenbaum GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applications of inductive logic programming; Intensional answers; Natural language interfaces

Indexed keywords

GENERATING REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUERY RESULTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ILP);

EID: 74849139750     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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