NQML: Natural Query Markup Language

Author

Parlikar, Alok ; Shrivastava, Nishant ; Khullar, Varun ; Sanyal, Sudip

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Technol., Allahabad, India

fYear

2005

fDate

30 Oct.-1 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

184

Lastpage

188

Abstract

Natural Query Markup Language is a mechanism that facilitates natural language frontend to relational databases. NQML is used as an intermediate language to convert English questions to SQL queries. As an extension of XML, NQML is easy to use and its structure simplifies the construction of programs that understand it. By creating a set of NQML files in our tests, we could successfully provide a frontend to databases with support for SELECT queries with a wide variety of WHERE clauses. Although the current version of NQML is very nascent, its performance in the task of question-answering was very satisfactory. Further improvements and enhancements in NQML can significantly improve the performance of natural language interfaces.

Keywords

SQL; XML; natural languages; query processing; relational databases; English questions; NQML files; Natural Query Markup Language; SELECT queries; SQL queries; WHERE clauses; XML; natural language interfaces; question-answering; relational databases; Database languages; Database systems; Information retrieval; Information technology; Markup languages; Natural languages; Relational databases; Spatial databases; Testing; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2005. IEEE NLP-KE '05. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9361-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598731

Filename

1598731