A Portable Natural Language Interface to Arabic Ontologies

PANTO: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Ontologies

Providing a natural language interface to ontologies will not only offer ordinary users the convenience of acquiring needed information from ontologies, but also expand the influence of ontologies and the semantic web consequently. This paper presents PANTO, a Portable nAtural laNguage inTerface to Ontologies, which accepts generic natural language queries and outputs SPARQL queries. Based on a...

A Portable Natural Language Interface for Diverse Databases Using Ontologies

The growth of user needs for accessing information resources, the technological advance in this field, and the limitations of graphical and formbased interfaces, motivate the proposal of new solutions and the revision of several others in order to solve one of the main problems in computer applications: human-machine interface. Natural language processing has experienced a new impulse in recent...

A portable natural language interface

A natural language interface allows database system users to input a query in a natural language such as English or French rather than in a formal query language. Such interfaces could also provide for natural language updates, but this paper deals only with queries. The goal of a natural language interface is to permit users to express their information needs in their own language and in conce...

ORAKEL: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Knowledge Bases

Interaction of Knowledge Sources in a Portable Natural Language Interface

This paper describes a general approach to the design of natural language interfaces that has evolved during the development of DATALOG, an English database query system based on Cascaded ATN grammar. By providing separate representation schemes for linguistic knowledge, general world knowledge, and application domain knowledge, DATALOG achieves a high degree of portability and