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JISBD
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Databases and Natural Language Interfaces
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Porfírio P. Filipe, Nuno J. Mamede
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Statistical Natural Language Translation with Categories and Rules
This paper describes an all level approach on statistical natural language translation (SNLT). Without any predefined knowledge the system learns a statistical translation lexicon...
Franz Josef Och, Hans Weber
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Enabling Domain-Awareness for a Generic Natural Language Interface
In this paper, we present a learning-based approach for enabling domain-awareness for a generic natural language interface. Our approach automatically acquires domain knowledge fr...
Yunyao Li, Ishan Chaudhuri, Huahai Yang, Satinder ...
ICCSA
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the Customization of Natural Language Interface to Databases Using an Ontology
Natural language interfaces to databases are considered one of the best alternatives for final users who wish to make complex, uncommon and frequent queries, which is a very common...
M. Jose A. Zarate, Rodolfo A. Pazos, Alexander F. ...
DAGM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Natural Language Understanding by Combining Statistical Methods and Extended Context-Free Grammars
This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only us...
Stefan Schwärzler, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wall...