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Enhancing System Usability with a Natural Language Interface

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011

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Abstract

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) is studied and developed for retrieving the recorded domain information within a prototype system, which manages complex information within the paradigm of recording live interactive records of information so that the recorded information can be queried and replayed. After introducing the background of the prototype system, concrete querying examples are presented so as to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of using the developed NLI. This is done by comparing the natural language queries and the corresponding SQL statements, which are automatically gained within the prototype system. This paper shows that an NLI can greatly reduce the efforts for writing or understanding queries of information systems, thus can enhance the system usability.

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The authors would like to thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) for their funding and support.

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    Erqiang Zhou & Bing Wu

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    Miloš Kudělka

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Zhou, E., Wu, B. (2013). Enhancing System Usability with a Natural Language Interface. In: Kudělka, M., Pokorný, J., Snášel, V., Abraham, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_7

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