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TELL-ME: A natural language query system

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Advances in Database Technology—EDBT '88 (EDBT 1988)

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TELL-ME is a VAX/VMS based PROTOTYPE Natural Language Database Query Facility which supports the use of a (limited) subset of the English Language. As a prototype it demonstrates the feasibility of using Natural Language to support casual access to VMS database products.

This Prototype has been developed and tested by the DIGITAL European A.I Technology Group.

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J. W. Schmidt S. Ceri M. Missikoff

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Himbaut, S. (1988). TELL-ME: A natural language query system. In: Schmidt, J.W., Ceri, S., Missikoff, M. (eds) Advances in Database Technology—EDBT '88. EDBT 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19074-0_80

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