Database Summarization: The SaintEtiQ System

SaintEtiQ (Saint-Paul et al., 2005) is an on-line linguistic summarization system of tables and/or views. Our approach considers a first normal form relation R(A₁,...,A_n) in the relational database model, and constructs a new relation R*( A₁,...,A_n), in which tuples z are summaries and attribute values are linguistic labels describing a set of tuples R_z, sub-table of R. Thus, the SaintEtiQ system identifies statements of the form "Most tuples of R are (a₁¹ or a₁²...or a₁^m₁) and (a₂¹...or a a₂^m₁)".