Enriching the conceptual basis for query formulation through relationship semantics in databases

Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 445-475

  Owei, Vesper ^a   Navathe, Shamkant B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept based query languages; Conceptual query language; Database end user; Database query semantics; Database semantics; Relationship semantics

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL QUERY LANGUAGES (CQL);

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035440836     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(01)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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