Natural language question processing for hungarian deep web searcher

The paper summarizes the first results of our ongoing research and development project, called "In the Net of Words" (NoW), funded by the National R+D Program in Hungary. The project aims at creating a complex search interface that incorporates - beside the usual keyword-based search functionality - deep Web search, Hungarian natural language question processing, image search support by visual thesaurus. One of the most crucial parts of the system is the transformation of natural language questions to adequate SQL queries that is in accordance with schema and attribute convention of contracted partner databases. This transformation is performed in three steps: natural language question processing, context recognition, and SQL transformation. In this paper we describe in details the first step