Extending the E-R concepts to capture natural language semantics for database access

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 30-35

  Tseng, Frank Shou Cheng ^a   Chen, Arbee L P ^b   Yang, Wei Pang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

DATABASE ACCESS; DATABASE LANGUAGE; MAPPING PROCESS; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY EXECUTION; RELATIONAL ALGEBRA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85068033176     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.1991.170148     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. P. A. Bernstein and D. M. W. Chiu, Using Semi-Joins to Solve Relational Queries, Journal of the ACM 28 (1) (1981) 25-40.
2. M. R. Blaha, et al., Relational Database Design Using an Objected-Oriented Methodology, Comm. ACM 31 (4) (1988)
3. P. P. Chen, The Entity-Relationship Model - Toward a Unified View of Data, ACM TODS 1 (1) (1976) 9-36.
4. P. P. Chen, English Sentence Structure and E-R Diagrams, Information Sciences 29 (2) (1983) 127-149.
5. A. L. P. Chen, et al., Distributed Query Processing in a Multiple Database System, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 7 (3) (1989) 390-398.
6. F. J. Damerau, Problems and Some Solutions in Customization of Natural Language Database Front Ends, ACM Trans. Office Information Systems 3 (2) (1985) 165-184.
7. C. J. Date, A Guide to INGRES (Addison-Wesley, MA 1987).
8. C. J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems (Addsion-Wesley, MA, 5th ed. 1990).
9. B. J. Grosz, et al., TEAM: An Experiment in the Design of Transportable Natural-Language Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence 32 (1) (1987) 173-243.
10. G. Jakobson et al., An Intelligent Database Assistant, IEEE Expert 1 (2) (1986) 65-79.
11. R. A. Kowalski, Logic for Problem Solving (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979).
12. M. C. McCord, Using Slots and Modifiers in Logic Grammars for Natural Language, Artificial Intelligence 18 (3) (1982) 327-367.
13. F. C. N. Pereira and D. H. D. Warren, Definite Clause Grammars for Language Analysis - A Survey of the Formalism and a Comparison with Augmented Transition Networks, Artificial Intelligence 13 (3) (1980) 231-278.
14. G. PiatetsKy-Shapiro and G. Jakobson, An Intermediate Database Language and Its Rule-based Transformation to Different Database Languages, Data & Knowledge Engineering 2 (1987) 1-29.
15. F. S. C. Tseng, S. Y. Lee and W. P. Yang, DELICIOUS: An Intermediate Code Scheme for Heterogeneous Database Systems, Proc. International Computer Symposium, Taiwan, ROC (1988) 998-1003.
16. J. D. Ullman, Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems (Computer Science Press, Vol. 2, Rockville, MD, 1988).
17. M. Wallace, Communicating with Databases in Natural Language (Ellis Horwood England, 1984).
18. P. H. Winston, Artificial Intelligence (Addison-Wesley, MA, 1984).
19. W. A. Wood, Transition Network Grammars for Natural Language Analysis, Comm. ACM 13 (10) (1970) 591-606.
20. A. Zvieli and P. P. Chen, Entity-Relationship Modeling and Fuzzy Databases, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Data Engineering (1986) 320-327.