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An Ontology based Dialog Interface to Database

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Ashish Mittal,

Jaydeep Sen,

Diptikalyan Saha,

Karthik SankaranarayananAuthors Info & Claims

SIGMOD '18: Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Management of Data

Pages 1749 - 1752

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183713.3193551

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

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In this paper, we extend the state-of-the-art NLIDB system and present a dialog interface to relational databases. Dialog interface enables users to automatically exploit the semantic context of the conversation while asking natural language queries over RDBMS, thereby making it simpler to express complex questions in a natural, piece-wise manner. We propose novel ontology-driven techniques for addressing each of the dialog-specific challenges such as co-reference resolution, ellipsis resolution, and query disambiguation, and use them in determining the overall intent of the user query. We demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of dialog interface over two different domains viz. finance and healthcare.

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Mittal ASaha DJain PSen JJammi MSankaranarayanan K(2021)Bootstrapping Chatbot Interfaces to DatabasesProceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (8th ACM IKDD CODS & 26th COMAD)10.1145/3430984.3431011(47-55)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430984.3431011
Tapsai C(2018)Information Processing and Retrieval from CSV File by Natural Language2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Communication and Information Systems (ICCIS)10.1109/ICOMIS.2018.8644947(212-216)Online publication date: Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOMIS.2018.8644947

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DOI:10.1145/3183713

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Microsoft Research, USA

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Mittal ASaha DJain PSen JJammi MSankaranarayanan K(2021)Bootstrapping Chatbot Interfaces to DatabasesProceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (8th ACM IKDD CODS & 26th COMAD)10.1145/3430984.3431011(47-55)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430984.3431011
Tapsai C(2018)Information Processing and Retrieval from CSV File by Natural Language2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Communication and Information Systems (ICCIS)10.1109/ICOMIS.2018.8644947(212-216)Online publication date: Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOMIS.2018.8644947

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