Semantic mapping between natural language questions and SQL queries via syntactic pairing

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

Volumn 5723 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 207-221

  Giordani, Alessandra ^a   Moschitti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kernel methods; Natural language processing; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC TRANSLATORS; KERNEL FUNCTION; KERNEL METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC MAPPING; SQL QUERY; SYNTACTIC TREES; TEST SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTACTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651229274     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12550-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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