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Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction
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This paper is an introduction to natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBS). A brief overview of the history of NLIDBS is first given. Some advantages and disadvantages of NLIDBS are then discussed, comparing NLIDBS to formal query languages, form-based interfaces, and graphical interfaces. An introduction to some of the linguistic problems NLIDBS have to confront follows, for the benefit of readers less familiar with computational linguistics. The discussion then moves on to NLIDB architectures, portability issues, restricted natural language input systems (including menu-based NLIDBS), and NLIDBS with reasoning capabilities. Some less explored areas of NLIDB research are then presented, namely database updates, meta-knowledge questions, temporal questions, and multi-modal NLIDBS. The paper ends with reflections on the current state of the art.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Androutsopoulos, I., Ritchie, G. D., & Thanisch, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- ORCID
- Androutsopoulos, I.
- Venue
- Natural Language Engineering
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1995-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 29-81
- ISSN
- 1351-3249 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8110
- OpenAlex
- W2145618437
- Cited by
- 768
- References
- 101
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 31
- FWCI
- 10.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Natural Language Engineering (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- State Scholarships Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Keywords
- natural language interfaces to databases, graphical user interface, linguistic challenges, database architecture, portability, menu-based interface, reasoning skills, database updates, multimodal interfaces
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