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Natural Language Front-End for a Database

Natural Language Front-End for a Database

Boris Galitsky
Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 5
ISBN13: 9781591405603|ISBN10: 1591405602|EISBN13: 9781591407959
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch068
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Galitsky, Boris. "Natural Language Front-End for a Database." Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, et al., IGI Global, 2005, pp. 403-407. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch068

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Galitsky, B. (2005). Natural Language Front-End for a Database. In L. Rivero, J. Doorn, & V. Ferraggine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications (pp. 403-407). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch068

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Galitsky, Boris. "Natural Language Front-End for a Database." In Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, Jorge Horacio Doorn, and Viviana E. Ferraggine, 403-407. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch068

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Abstract

Whatever knowledge a database contains, one of the essential questions in its design and usability is how its users will interact with it. If these users are human agents, the most ordinary way to query a database would be in the natural language (Gazdar, 1999; Popescu, Etzioni, & Kautz, 2003; Sabourin, 1994). Natural language question answering (NL Q/A), wherein questions are posed in a plain language, may be considered the most universal but not always the best (i.e., fastest) way to provide the information access to a database. One should be aware that approaches to data access, such as visualization, menus and multiple choice, FAQ lists, and so forth, have been successfully employed long before the NL Q/A systems came into play. In the following, I discuss situations in which a particular information access approach is optimal.

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