A Robust Portable Natural Language Data Base Interface

ORAKEL: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Knowledge Bases

Towards portable natural language interfaces to knowledge bases - The case of the ORAKEL system

The customization of a natural language interface to a certain application, domain or knowledge base still represents a major effort for end users given the current state-of-the-art. In this article, we present our natural language interface ORAKEL, describe its architecture, design choices and implementation. In particular, we present ORAKEL’s adaptation model which allows users which are not ...

A portable natural language interface

A natural language interface allows database system users to input a query in a natural language such as English or French rather than in a formal query language. Such interfaces could also provide for natural language updates, but this paper deals only with queries. The goal of a natural language interface is to permit users to express their information needs in their own language and in conce...

PANTO: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Ontologies

Providing a natural language interface to ontologies will not only offer ordinary users the convenience of acquiring needed information from ontologies, but also expand the influence of ontologies and the semantic web consequently. This paper presents PANTO, a Portable nAtural laNguage inTerface to Ontologies, which accepts generic natural language queries and outputs SPARQL queries. Based on a...

Sesame A Portable Data Base Interface Generator

St!!!SAME is being developed to provide an easy access to the content of relational data bases to users without a specific computer training. Queries me typed in natural language either freely or with a guided mode. The system dynamically proposes through menus the different words and phrases that c;~n make up a query. Users are able to exploit the results of their queries with standard electro...