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An approach for implementing natural language interfaces to relational databases is presented which relies on semantic information about the domain of discourse rather than on the syntax of utterances. Based on a graph-based general procedure for translating natural language questions into formal language queries, the hapter deals with three specific problems of cooperative behavior: ambiguity with respect to the database, conjunction processing, and ellipsis.
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Janas, J.M. (1986). The Semantics-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases. In: Bolc, L., Jarke, M. (eds) Cooperative Interfaces to Information Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82815-7_6
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