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FQAS
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies
Abstract. Controlled languages (CLs) are ambiguity-free subsets of natural languages such as English offering a good trade-off between the formal rigor of ontology and query langua...
Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Explaining Structured Queries in Natural Language
— Many applications offer a form-based environment for na¨ıve users for accessing databases without being familiar with the database schema or a structured query language. User...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioanni...
WCE
2007
13 years 8 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar
VLDB
1992
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries
Research in temporal databases has mainly focused on defining temporal data models by extending existing models, and developing access structures for temporal data. Little has bee...
Umeshwar Dayal, Gene T. J. Wuu
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz