Omnibase: Uniform access to heterogeneous data for question answering

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

Volumn 2553, Issue , 2002, Pages 230-234

  Katz, Boris ^a   Felshin, Sue ^a   Yuret, Deniz ^a   Ibrahim, Ali ^a   Lin, Jimmy ^a   Marton, Gregory ^a   McFarland, Alton Jerome ^a   Temelkuran, Baris ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES; HIGH-PRECISION; NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING; UNIFORM STRUCTURE; VIRTUAL DATABASE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957799658     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36271-1_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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