Providing Multilingual Natural Language Access to Tourism Information
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In this paper we describe an approach for a multilingual natural language query interface that allows the formulation of queries on tourism information like hotel availability. The interface is based on n-gram language identification and a keyword-based query interpretation where natural language analysis is performed for identification of the requested objects. The web-based interface is designed to allow for easy addition of alternative languages and for easy adaptation to other application domains.
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