Sciweavers

431 search results - page 1 / 87
» A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces
Sort
View
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces
We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpre...
Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert J. Bobrow, Ri...
WCE
2007
13 years 5 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar
COLING
1992
13 years 5 months ago
Processing Complex Noun Phrases In A Natural Language Interface To A Statistical Database
Analysisof a corpus of queries to a statistical database has shown considerable variation in the location and order of modifiers in complex noun phrases. Nevertheless, restriction...
Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Dan Fass, Gary Hal...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Natural Language Grammar Induction Using a Constituent-Context Model
This paper presents a novel approach to the unsupervised learning of syntactic analyses of natural language text. Most previous work has focused on maximizing likelihood according...
Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz