A semantics based interactive query formulation technique

Proceedings - 2nd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 43-49

  Baer, D ^a   Groenewoud, P ^a   Kapetanios, E ^a   Keuser, S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Interactive query formulation; Knowledge based querying; Semantic constraints; Visual query languages

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

CLIENT /SERVER; INTERACTIVE QUERIES; KNOWLEDGE BASED; MODEL SEMANTICS; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; QUERY ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC CONSTRAINTS; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84963800042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UIDIS.2001.929924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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