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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
360views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
NaLIX: an interactive natural language interface for querying XML
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, H. V. Jagadish
TBILLC
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Cross-Linguistic Production Data Archive: Structure and Exploration
The present paper presents the structure of a cross-linguistic database of production data. The database contains annotated texts collected from a sample of fifteen different langu...
Michael Götze, Stavros Skopeteas, Torsten Rol...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A reliable natural language interface to household appliances
As household appliances grow in complexity and sophistication, they become harder and harder to use, particularly because of their tiny display screens and limited keyboards. This...
Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
ICMI
2004
Springer
116views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Towards integrated microplanning of language and iconic gesture for multimodal output
When talking about spatial domains, humans frequently accompany their explanations with iconic gestures to depict what they are referring to. For example, when giving directions, ...
Stefan Kopp, Paul Tepper, Justine Cassell
ACL
1996
13 years 7 months ago
Higher-Order Coloured Unification and Natural Language Semantics
In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase