NaLIR: An interactive natural language interface for querying relational databases

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 709-712

  Li, Fei ^a   Jagadish, H V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural language interface; Relational database; Usability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

COMPLEX QUERIES; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SQL QUERY; TURING TESTS; USABILITY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84904357885     PISSN: 07308078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2594519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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