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ANLP
1994
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13 years 8 months ago
Resolving Anaphora in a Portable Natural Language Front End to Databases
An analysis of the evolution of Natural Language front ends in the last three decades shows that the growth in portability brought, as a side effect, the narrowing of the provided...
Flávia A. Barros, Anne N. De Roeck
SSDBM
1998
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
From a Procedural to a Visual Query Language for OLAP
We address the issue of designing effective query languages for OLAP databases. The basis of our investigation is MD, a new data model for multidimensional databases that, unlike ...
Luca Cabibbo, Riccardo Torlone
ER
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Kuaba Ontology: Design Rationale Representation and Reuse in Model-Based Designs
This paper presents the Kuaba Ontology, a knowledge representation model for Design Rationale described in an ontology definition language. The representation of this model in a sp...
Adriana Pereira de Medeiros, Daniel Schwabe, Bruno...
JISBD
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Databases and Natural Language Interfaces
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Porfírio P. Filipe, Nuno J. Mamede
VLDB
1991
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Kaleidoscope Data Model for An English-like Query Language
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
Sang Kyun Cha, Gio Wiederhold