TY - GEN
T1 - A portable natural language interface for diverse databases using ontologies
AU - Zárate, Antonio
AU - Pazos, Rodolfo
AU - Gelbukh, Alexander
AU - Padrón, Isabel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The growth of user needs for accessing information resources, the technological advance in this field, and the limitations of graphical and formbased interfaces, motivate the proposal of new solutions and the revision of several others in order to solve one of the main problems in computer applications: human-machine interface. Natural language processing has experienced a new impulse in recent years, and it is proposed as the best solution for the aforementioned problem. The first results of a project for developing a natural language interface to databases are presented, which is an extension of a larger project aimed at developing user interfaces for facilitating access to databases via Internet. In this project the use of ontologies is proposed as a means for making the interface portable to different databases, contributing in this manner to facilitate the configuration task for this type of interfaces, which is one of the main factors that have limited their application. In this paper the conceptual architecture of a natural language interface to databases on the Internet is described as well as the development attained.
AB - The growth of user needs for accessing information resources, the technological advance in this field, and the limitations of graphical and formbased interfaces, motivate the proposal of new solutions and the revision of several others in order to solve one of the main problems in computer applications: human-machine interface. Natural language processing has experienced a new impulse in recent years, and it is proposed as the best solution for the aforementioned problem. The first results of a project for developing a natural language interface to databases are presented, which is an extension of a larger project aimed at developing user interfaces for facilitating access to databases via Internet. In this project the use of ontologies is proposed as a means for making the interface portable to different databases, contributing in this manner to facilitate the configuration task for this type of interfaces, which is one of the main factors that have limited their application. In this paper the conceptual architecture of a natural language interface to databases on the Internet is described as well as the development attained.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858867487&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-36456-0_52
DO - 10.1007/3-540-36456-0_52
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SN - 3540005323
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 494
EP - 505
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
A2 - Gelbukh, Alexander
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2003
Y2 - 16 February 2003 through 22 February 2003
ER -