Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and, eventual...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, Helen J. Wan...
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer, requ...
Wolfgang Broll, Jan Ohlenburg, Irma Lindt, Iris He...
We present the advantages of guided sentences composition for communicating in natural language with computers. We show how guidance can be achieved by means of the partial synthe...