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JISBD
2000
15 years 4 months ago
Databases and Natural Language Interfaces
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 ...
Porfírio P. Filipe, Nuno J. Mamede
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 1999»
15 years 7 months ago
Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data
We address the problem of query rewriting for TSL, a language for querying semistructured data. We develop and present an algorithm that, given a semistructured query q and a set ...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Vasilis Vassalos
ICDE
2007
IEEE
132views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
XPlainer: Visual Explanations of XPath Queries
The popularity of XML has motivated the development of novel XML processing tools many of which embed the XPath language for XML querying, transformation, constraint specification...
Mariano P. Consens, John W. S. Liu, Flavio Rizzolo
ESA
2004
Springer
160views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal External Memory Planar Point Enclosure
Abstract. In this paper we study the external memory planar point enclosure problem: Given N axis-parallel rectangles in the plane, construct a data structure on disk (an index) su...
Lars Arge, Vasilis Samoladas, Ke Yi
ICCSA
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Improving the Customization of Natural Language Interface to Databases Using an Ontology
Natural language interfaces to databases are considered one of the best alternatives for final users who wish to make complex, uncommon and frequent queries, which is a very common...
M. Jose A. Zarate, Rodolfo A. Pazos, Alexander F. ...