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AI 1988: AI '88 pp 395–409Cite as

Common-sense resolution of syntactic ambiguity in database queries

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In a natural language database query, the existence of syntactic ambiguity within the input utterance results in more than one possible interpretation of the input. This paper describes a procedure to resolve this type of ambiguity by making use of domain knowledge and information in the database schema, and by examining the sentential structure of the input utterance.

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  1. Lai Leng Hui

    Present address: Department of Information Systems, Monash University, Australia

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Lai Leng Hui & Ingrid Zukerman

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Christopher J. Barter Michael J. Brooks

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Hui, L.L., Zukerman, I. (1990). Common-sense resolution of syntactic ambiguity in database queries. In: Barter, C.J., Brooks, M.J. (eds) AI '88. AI 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52062-7_92

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