Prepositions and conjunctions in a natural language interfaces to databases

J. Javier González B., Rodolfo A. Pazos R., Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Hector Fraire H., I. Cristina Cruz C.

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This paper present the treatment of prepositions and conj unctions in natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) that allows better translation of queries expressed in natural language into formal languages. Prepositions and conjunctions weren't sufficiently studied for their usage in NLIDBs, because most of the NLIDBs just look for keywords in the sentences and focus their analysis on nouns and verbs getting rid of auxiliary words in the query. This paper shows that prepositions and conjunctions can be represented as operations using formal set theory. Additionally, since prepositions and conjunctions keep their meaning in any context, their treatment is domain independent. In our experiments we used Spanish language. We validate our approach using two databases; Northwind and Pubsof SQL Server, with a corpus of 198 different queries for the first one and 70 queries for the second one. The 84% of queries were translated correctly for the database Northwind and 80% for Pubs.

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Título de la publicación alojadaFrontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking - ISPA 2007 Workshops. ISPA 2007 International Workshops - SSDSN, UPWN, WISH, SGC, ParDMCom,HiPCoMB, and IST-AWSN, Proceedings
EditorialSpringer Verlag
Páginas173-182
Número de páginas10
ISBN (versión impresa)9783540747666
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2007
Publicado de forma externa
Evento5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007 International Workshops: SSDSN, UPWN, WISH, SGC, ParDMCom, HiPCoMB, and IST-AWSN - Niagara Falls, ON, Canadá
Duración: 29 ago. 200731 ago. 2007

Serie de la publicación

NombreLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volumen4743 LNCS
ISSN (versión impresa)0302-9743
ISSN (versión digital)1611-3349

Conferencia

Conferencia5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007 International Workshops: SSDSN, UPWN, WISH, SGC, ParDMCom, HiPCoMB, and IST-AWSN
País/TerritorioCanadá
CiudadNiagara Falls, ON
Período29/08/0731/08/07

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