The workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB)hassince1995providedaforumforacademicandindustrialresearchers and practitioners to discuss the application of natural language to both the development and use of software applications. Theuseofnaturallanguageinrelationtosoftwarehascontributedtoimpr- ing the development of software from the viewpoints of both the developers and the users. Developers bene?t from improvements in conceptual modeling, so- ware validation, natural language program speci?cations, and many other areas. Users bene?t from increased usability of applications through natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, text summarizations, etc. The integration of natural language and information systems has been a - search objective for a long time now. Today, the goal of good integration seems not so far-fetched. This is due mainly to the rapid progress of research in natural language and to the development of new and powerful technologies. The in- gration of natural language and information systems has become a convergent point towards which many researchers from several research areas are focussing.
Author(s): Vijayan Sugumaran, Veda C. Storey (auth.), Birger Andersson, Maria Bergholtz, Paul Johannesson (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2553
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 246
Tags: Database Management; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
An Ontology-Based Framework for Generating and Improving Database Design....Pages 1-12
A Web Information Extraction System to DB Prototyping....Pages 13-26
Automatic Help for Building and Maintaining Ontologies....Pages 27-39
Semi-automatic Content Extraction from Specifications....Pages 40-51
Integrating Retrieval Functionality inWeb Sites Based on Storyboard Design andWord Fields....Pages 52-63
Vulcain — An Ontology-Based Information Extraction System....Pages 64-75
Automatic Identification of European Languages....Pages 76-84
A Method for Maintaining Document Consistency Based on Similarity Contents....Pages 85-96
Evaluation and Construction of Training Corpuses for Text Classification: A Preliminary Study....Pages 97-108
Replicating Quantified Noun Phrases in Database Semantics....Pages 109-122
Ontological Extraction of Content for Text Querying....Pages 123-136
Ontology-Based Data Cleaning....Pages 137-149
Retrieving NASA Problem Reports with Natural Language....Pages 150-159
Access to Multimedia Information through Multisource and Multilanguage Information Extraction....Pages 160-171
On Semantic Classification of Modifiers....Pages 172-182
Evaluating a Spelling Support in a Search Engine....Pages 183-190
Opening Statistical Translation Engines to Terminological Resources....Pages 191-202
User-Centred Ontology Learning for Knowledge Management....Pages 203-207
A Multilevel Text Processing Model of Newsgroup Dynamics....Pages 208-212
Best Feature Selection for Maximum Entropy-Based Word Sense Disambiguation_....Pages 213-217
Linguistics in Large-Scale Web Search....Pages 218-222
Similarity Model and Term Association for Document Categorization....Pages 223-229
Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering....Pages 230-234
Automated Question Answering Using Question Templates That Cover the Conceptual Model of the Database....Pages 235-239
