BINLI: An Ontology-Based Natural Language Interface for Multidimensional Data Analysis

BINLI: An Ontology-Based Natural Language Interface for Multidimensional Data Analysis

Current technology facilitates access to the vast amount of information that is produced every day. Both individuals and companies are active consumers of data from the Web and other sources, and these data guide decision making. Due to the huge volume of data to be processed in a business context, managers rely on decision support systems to facilitate data analysis. OLAP tools are Business In...

Ontology Based Queries – Investigating a Natural Language Interface

In this paper we look at what may be learned from a comparative study examining non-technical users with a background in social science browsing and querying metadata. Four query tasks were carried out with a natural language interface and with an interface that uses a web paradigm with hyperlinks. While it can be difficult to attribute differences in performance to specific design features, a ...

An Ontology Specification Language Based on a Controlled Natural Language

The specification of ontologies has always been a complex problem, especially due to the difficulty of acquiring knowledge from domain experts. This paper proposes an ontology specification language based on a Controlled Natural language to be used by domain experts in the specification of their own ontologies. The language was made in order to tolerate the use of linguistic mechanism like anap...

An Intelligent Natural-language Interface for ArcView

The ordinary GIS systems use command line, menu or window interface, which are difficult for a naïve user to use. In this paper, SNePS (the Semantic Network Processing System) is used to represent geographic spatial knowledge. An intelligent naturallanguage interface between ArcView and SNePS (the Semantic Network Processing System) was implemented. The interface will accept the input command a...

Natural-Language Interface for an Instructable Robot