The design and implementation of a meaning driven data query language

Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 20-23

  Kapetanios, E ^a   Baer, D ^a   Groenewoud, P ^a   Mueller, P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer science; Data models; Database languages; Database systems; Engines; Natural languages; Ontologies; Software packages; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENGINES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

CONVENTIONAL DATABASE; DATABASE LANGUAGE; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY CONSTRUCTION; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SEMANTIC CONSTRAINTS; VOCABULARY;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 84948653106     PISSN: 10993371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SSDM.2002.1029702     Document Type: Article

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