A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM FORMS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 540-545

  Meng, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONTEXT-WORD; DATA-SOURCE; DISAMBIGUATION METHOD; N-GRAM STATISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; USER INPUT;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85016784328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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