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Natural language interfaces to databases – an introduction

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Androutsopoulos, I., Ritchie, G.D., Thanisch, P.·1995·Natural Language Engineering
DOI 10.1017/s135132490000005x
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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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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
DOI
10.1017/s135132490000005x
OpenAlex
W2145618437
Cited by
768
References
101
Citations by year
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FWCI
10.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4944 d)
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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