Exploring time, tense, and aspect in natural language database interfaces / / Ion Androutsopoulos

• Autore: Androutsopoulos Ion
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Temporal constructions - Data processing; Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb - Data processing; Computational linguistics
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Linguistic data and an informal account -- Chapter 3: The TOP meaning representation language -- Chapter 4: From English to TOP -- Chapter 5: From TOP to TSQL2 -- Chapter 6: The prototype NLITDB -- Chapter 7: Related work and directions for further research -- References -- Index -- Appendix A: TOP to TSQL2 translation rules -- Natural Language Processing.
• Sommario/riassunto: Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database queries to be formulated in natural language. Most of the existing interfaces, however, do not support adequately the notion of time. Drawing upon tense and aspect theories, temporal logics, and temporal databases, this cross-discipline book examines relevant issues from the three areas, developing a unified theoretical framework that can be used to build natural language interfaces to temporal databases. The framework features an HPSG mapping from English to a formally defined meaning representation language, and a corresponding mapping to a temporal extension of the SQL database language. The book is accompanied by a freely available prototype interface, built according to the framework, and implemented using Prolog and ALE. This is the first in-depth exploration of the notion of time in natural language database interfaces. It will be particularly interesting to researchers working on natural language interaction, tense and aspect, HPSG, temporal logics, and temporal databases, especially those who wish to learn about time-related issues in other disciplines.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces
• ISBN: 9786612161933; 9781282161931; 1282161938; 9789027297471; 9027297479
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974241003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Natural language processing (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; ; v. 6.