A Survey: Natural Language Interface to Databases

Information p lays an important role in our everyday life and databases are widely used for storing and retrieving informat ion. Database technology is having major impact in the world of computing. To access the informat ion from database one need to have knowledge of database query language such as SQL. Because the naïve user may not be aware of the syntax of SQL and structure of database, s/he may not be able to write the SQL queries. Non -technical users may query relat ional databases in their natural language (i.e. English) instead of using SQL. This idea of using a Natural Language instead of SQL has lead to an approach of building Natural Language Interface to Relational Database. This paper is an introduction to the natural language interface to databases (NLIDB).