NaLER: A natural language method for interpreting entity-relationship models

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 85-93

  Atkins, Clare ^a   Patrick, Jon ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data structuring; Information systems; Organizational structure; Relational databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986105190     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740010326627     Document Type: Article

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