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In this paper we present the issues involved in the design of a Multilevel Interface to a Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management Systems. The system provides interaction with the database using natural language, general formal language and a target formal language. Issues of syntactic analyses, semantic analyses, knowledge representation, query interpretation and generation of query in a formal query language are discussed in the paper.
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Desai, B.C., Zhang, L. (1991). Multilevel interface to a distributed database system. In: Ras, Z.W., Zemankova, M. (eds) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 542. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54563-8_76
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