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<body class='hmmessage'><BR>Hi Grem,<BR>
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Really helpful links to have a theoraticle idea. <BR>
I don't have free access to <A href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/9864800228465p73/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/9864800228465p73/</A><BR>
can you suggest a solution?<BR>
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Regards<BR>
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> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:51:45 -0400<BR>> From: gremio@csail.mit.edu<BR>> To: vrone@hotmail.co.uk<BR>> CC: corpora@uib.no<BR>> Subject: RE: algo for semantic structure<BR>> <BR>> Hi Vrone,<BR>> <BR>> > Its a NL querying system which checks for the entered natural language <BR>> > query against the database schema, so the task is to make a semantic tree <BR>> > structure against the database domain. hope this clears my question.<BR>> <BR>> As the recent interview linked in my previous email said, many companies <BR>> have tried to commercialize a solution for natural language access to <BR>> databases, both structured and semistructured (including some free text <BR>> fields). A quick google search will reveal dozens of patents.<BR>> <BR>> More on the research end, here's a partial reading list, to which perhaps <BR>> others will add (though I'm not sure of its relevance to the Corpora list):<BR>> <BR>> 1994 Androutsopoulos: Natural Language Interfaces to Databases --- an<BR>> Introduction<BR>> http://www.citebase.org/cgi-bin/fulltext?format=application/pdf&identifier=oai:arXiv.org:cmp-lg/9503016<BR>> <BR>> 1998 Androutsopoulos: Time, Tense, and Aspect in Natural Language Database<BR>> Interfaces<BR>> http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=48450<BR>> <BR>> 2004 Chu, Meng: Database Query Formation from Natural Language using<BR>> Semantic Modeling and Statistical Keyword Meaning Disambiguation<BR>> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1008992.1008996<BR>> <BR>> 2004 Kang, Na, Lee, Yang: Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces <BR>> http://www.springerlink.com/content/1pdb60pk7ket0m1r/<BR>> <BR>> 2005 Katz, Borchardt, Felshin: Syntactic and Semantic Decomposition<BR>> Strategies for Question Answering from Multiple Resources<BR>> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/infolab/publications/Katz-etal-AAAI05W5.pdf<BR>> <BR>> 2006 Yang, Jagadish: Constructing a Generic Natural Language Interface for<BR>> an XML Database<BR>> http://www.springerlink.com/content/9864800228465p73/<BR>> <BR>> 2007 Lipczak, Milos: Natural Search Queries for Consumer-Oriented Databases<BR>> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4437939<BR>> <BR>> Hope that helps,<BR>> Grem<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> > Hi Gregory<BR>> ><BR>> > Its a NL querying system which checks for the entered natural language <BR>> > query against the database schema, so the task is to make a semantic tree <BR>> > structure against the database domain. hope this clears my question.<BR>> ><BR>> > regards<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:11:32 -0400<BR>> >> From: gremio@csail.mit.edu<BR>> >> To: vrone@hotmail.co.uk<BR>> >> Subject: RE: algo for semantic structure<BR>> >><BR>> >> Hi Vrone,<BR>> >><BR>> >> There are so very many definitions of "meaningful". I'll try a different<BR>> >> tack: for what purpose do you wish to employ this representation? As you<BR>> >> mention a natural language query, are you trying to do free-text question<BR>> >> answering, as exemplified by previous TREC-QA tracks, or perhaps translate<BR>> >> natural language queries into structured database queries?<BR>> >><BR>> >> http://trec.nist.gov/data/qa.html<BR>> >> http://www.ddj.com/database/206904663<BR>> >><BR>> >> Best,<BR>> >> Grem<BR>> >><BR>> >>> Hi Grem,<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> By semantic representation I meant A meaningfull representation of the<BR>> >>> POS tagged syntactic structure, made from a natural language query.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> Regards<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:36:31 -0400<BR>> >>>> From: gremio@csail.mit.edu<BR>> >>>> To: vrone@hotmail.co.uk<BR>> >>>> Subject: Re: algo for semantic structure<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> Hi Vrone,<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> What do you mean, in this case, by semantic structure?<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> Grem<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>>><BR>> >>>>> Hi all,<BR>> >>>>><BR>> >>>>> Can any one give an idea about best algorithm to transform syntactic<BR>> >>>>> structure into a semantic structure, in NLP context.<BR>> >>>>><BR>> >>>>> Regards,<BR>> >>>>> Vrone<BR>> >>>>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>> >>>>> Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search<BR>> >>>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> --<BR>> >>>> ------ __@ Gregory A. 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