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...
— 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...
—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...
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...
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...