An overview of cooperative answering in databases

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

Volumn 1495, Issue , 1998, Pages 282-285

  Minker, Jack ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PENNSYLVANIA; QUERY SYSTEMS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 84863905969     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0056009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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