The goal of this paper is to build a bridge from a certain intuitive conception of natural language communication, called the SLIM theory of language, to a technical approach, cal...
Findings from a data mapping and extraction exercise undertaken as part of the STAR project are described and related to recent work in the area. The exercise was undertaken in con...
Spatio-temporal databases have been the focus of considerable research activity over a significant period. However, there are as of yet very few prototypes of complete systems, f...
Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Tony Grif...
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...