Extracting meaningful semantic information with EMATISE: an HPSG-based Internet search engine parser

Author

Hou, Lijun ; Cercone, Nick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2858

Abstract

We describe EMATISE, our prototype natural language interface that serves as a front-end to Internet search engines; this prototype is based on the HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) formalism. Our current work concentrates on parsing natural language phrases and extracting meaningful semantic information. We present the architecture of our system for Internet access and the reasons for our choice of parser. The implementation of some modules of the system is discussed and some experimental results with sample sessions are presented

Keywords

Internet; grammars; natural language interfaces; online front-ends; search engines; EMATISE; HPSG-based Internet search engine parser; Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar; Internet access; front-end; meaningful semantic information; meaningful semantic information extraction; natural language phrase parsing; prototype natural language interface; Boolean functions; Computer science; Data mining; Internet; Natural languages; Notice of Violation; Prototypes; Search engines; Vehicles; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2001.971943

Filename

971943