Title :
Communicating with databases in natural language: a proposal to simplify interfaces
Author :
Ferreira Arabe, A.M. ; Pereira, Antonio Eduardo Costa ; Testa, Teresa Ange?©lica Kodrigues
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Inf. e Eletrica, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper presents a way of restricting human languages for use in natural language interfaces. The proposal is to simplify the kind of knowledge stored in the database. The simplification is based on Piaget´s (1970) structuralist theory of mother structures and on partial evaluation. A system has been implemented and the main features are discussed in this paper
Keywords :
database management systems; natural language interfaces; query processing; databases; mother structures; natural language interfaces; partial evaluation; structuralist theory; Humans; Natural languages; Proposals; Spatial databases; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2559-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538209
