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PKDD
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
Alessandra Giordani, Alessandro Moschitti
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The role of context in question answering systems
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
FQAS
2009
Springer
202views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies
Abstract. Controlled languages (CLs) are ambiguity-free subsets of natural languages such as English offering a good trade-off between the formal rigor of ontology and query langua...
Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese