Learning a Compositional Semantic Parser using an Existing Syntactic Parser

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 611-619

  Ge, Ruifang ^a   Mooney, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SYNTACTICS;

APPROACHES TO LEARNING; COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS; DATABASE QUERYING; LOGICAL FORMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NEW APPROACHES; PARSE TREES; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SYNTACTIC PARSERS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053254239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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