Information extraction for SQL query generation in the Conversation-Based Interfaces to Relational Databases (C-BIRD)

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

Volumn 6682 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 44-53

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

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation Based Interfaces to Relational Databases; Conversational Agents; Information Extraction; Knowledge Trees

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DECISION PATHS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; KNOWLEDGE TREE; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; SQL QUERY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 79960307085     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22000-5_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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