[Corpora-List] algo for semantic structure

[Gregory Marton]

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Grem

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vrone wrote:

> Hi Grem,
>
> Really helpful links to have a theoraticle idea.
> I don't have free access to http://www.springerlink.com/content/9864800228465p73/
> can you suggest a solution?
>
> Regards
>
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>> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:51:45 -0400> From: gremio at csail.mit.edu> To: vrone at hotmail.co.uk> CC: corpora at uib.no> Subject: RE: algo for semantic structure> > Hi Vrone,> > > Its a NL querying system which checks for the entered natural language > > query against the database schema, so the task is to make a semantic tree > > structure against the database domain. hope this clears my question.> > As the recent interview linked in my previous email said, many companies > have tried to commercialize a solution for natural language access to > databases, both structured and semistructured (including some free text > fields). A quick google search will reveal dozens of patents.> > More on the research end, here's a partial reading list, to which perhaps > others will add (though I'm not sure of its relevance to the Corpora list):> > 1994 Androutsopoulos: Natural Language Interfaces to Databases --- an> Introduction> http://www.citebase.org/cgi-bin/fulltext?format=application/pdf&identifier=oai:arXiv.org:cmp-lg/9503016> > 1998 Androutsopoulos: Time, Tense, and Aspect in Natural Language Database> Interfaces> http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=48450> > 2004 Chu, Meng: Database Query Formation from Natural Language using> Semantic Modeling and Statistical Keyword Meaning Disambiguation> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1008992.1008996> > 2004 Kang, Na, Lee, Yang: Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces > http://www.springerlink.com/content/1pdb60pk7ket0m1r/> > 2005 Katz, Borchardt, Felshin: Syntactic and Semantic Decomposition> Strategies for Question Answering from Multiple Resources> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/infolab/publications/Katz-etal-AAAI05W5.pdf> > 2006 Yang, Jagadish: Constructing a Generic Natural Language Interface for> an XML Database> http://www.springerlink.com/content/9864800228465p73/> > 2007 Lipczak, Milos: Natural Search Queries for Consumer-Oriented Databases> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4437939> > Hope that helps,> Grem> > > > Hi Gregory> >> > Its a NL querying system which checks for the entered natural language > > query against the database schema, so the task is to make a semantic tree > > structure against the database domain. hope this clears my question.> >> > regards> >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:11:32 -0400> >> From: gremio at csail.mit.edu> >> To: vrone at hotmail.co.uk> >> Subject: RE: algo for semantic structure> >>> >> Hi Vrone,> >>> >> There are so very many definitions of "meaningful". I'll try a different> >> tack: for what purpose do you wish to employ this representation? As you> >> mention a natural language query, are you trying to do free-text question> >> answering, as exemplified by previous TREC-QA tracks, or perhaps translate> >> natural language queries into structured database queries?> >>> >> http://trec.nist.gov/data/qa.html> >> http://www.ddj.com/database/206904663> >>> >> Best,> >> Grem> >>> >>> Hi Grem,> >>>> >>> By semantic representation I meant A meaningfull representation of the> >>> POS tagged syntactic structure, made from a natural language query.> >>>> >>> Regards> >>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:36:31 -0400> >>>> From: gremio at csail.mit.edu> >>>> To: vrone at hotmail.co.uk> >>>> Subject: Re: algo for semantic structure> >>>>> >>>> Hi Vrone,> >>>>> >>>> What do you mean, in this case, by semantic structure?> >>>>> >>>> Grem> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Hi all,> >>>>>> >>>>> Can any one give an idea about best algorithm to transform syntactic> >>>>> structure into a semantic structure, in NLP context.> >>>>>> >>>>> Regards,> >>>>> Vrone> >>>>> _________________________________________________________________> >>>>> Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search> >>>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/> >>>>> >>>> --> >>>> ------ __@ Gregory A. Marton http://csail.mit.edu/~gremio/> >>>> --- _`\<,_ .> >>>> -- (*)/ (*) Back the metric system every inch of the way.> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~_~~~_~~~~~v~~~~^^^^~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~> >>>>> >>>> >>> _________________________________________________________________> >>> Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger> >>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/> >>> >> --> >> ------ __@ Gregory A. Marton http://csail.mit.edu/~gremio/> >> --- _`\<,_ .> >> -- (*)/ (*) Birds are caught by their feet, men by their tongues.> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~_~~~_~~~~~v~~~~^^^^~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~> >>> >> > _________________________________________________________________> > Win New York holidays with Kellogg?s & Live Search> > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354033/direct/01/> > -- > ------ __@ Gregory A. Marton http://csail.mit.edu/~gremio/> --- _`\<,_ .> -- (*)/ (*) I came, I saw, I thunked, I flunked.> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~_~~~_~~~~~v~~~~^^^^~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~>
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