Modern natural language interfaces to databases: Composing statistical parsing with semantic tractability

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Popescu, Ana Maria ^a   Armanasu, Alex ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Ko, David ^a   Yates, Alexander ^a  

^a Wash   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

DATA SET; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE TO DATABASE; PLUG-INS; SEMANTIC MODELLING; SQL QUERY; STATISTICAL PARSER; STATISTICAL PARSING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85093796027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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