Natural Language for Database Queries: A Laboratory Study

Natural Language for Database Queries: A Laboratory Study

Technical feasibility and promise of practical use for querying databases in natural 1 anguage (for example, English) has been demonstrated by a large number of experimental systems, and the commercial availability of at 1 east one such system. Yet natural 1 anguage continues to be the most controversi al among the 1 anguage interfaces that have been proposed for direct interaction with databas...

An Efficient Denotational Semantics for Natural Language Database Queries

Early work on natural language database query processing focused on theories of compositional semantics. Recent work concentrates on the translation of NL queries to SQL where semantics is primarily used in an ad hoc manner to guide syntactic translation. Here, we argue that there remains a need for an efficiently-implementable denotational semantics for NL DB queries, and show how this can be ...

Processing of natural language queries to a relational database

MOTIVATION A new method is developed to query a relational database in natural language (NL). RESULTS The method, based on a semantic approach, interprets grammatical and lexical units of a natural language into concepts of subject domain, which are given in a conceptual scheme. The conceptual scheme is mapped formally onto the logical scheme. We applied the method to query the FlyEx database...

Natural Language Queries on Natural Language Data: a Database of Meeting Dialogues

This paper describes an integrated system designed for the storage and retrieval of meeting transcripts (e.g. staff meetings). The system gives users who have not attended a meeting, or who want to review a particular point, enhanced access to an annotated version of the recorded data. This paper describes the various stages in the processing, storage and query of the data. First, we put forwar...

Natural Language Queries on Natural Language Data: a Database of Meeting Dialogues