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Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System

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The fast growth of Internet is creating a society where the demand on information storage, organization, access, and analysis services is continuously growing. This constantly increases the number of inexperienced users that need to access databases in a simple way. Together with the emergence of voice interfaces, such a situation foretells a promising future for database querying systems using natural language interfaces. We describe the architecture of a relational database querying system using a natural language (Spanish) interface, giving a brief explanation of the implementation of each of the constituent modules: lexical parser, syntax checker, and semantic analyzer.

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  1. Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Mexico

    Rodolfo A. Pazos Range

  2. Computing Research Center (CIC), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

  3. Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Mexico

    J. Javier González Barbosa, Erika Alarcón Ruiz, Alejandro Mendoza Mejía & A. Patricia Domínguez Sánchez

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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  2. Faculty of Informatics Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Pazos Range, R.A., Gelbukh, A., Barbosa, J.J.G., Ruiz, E.A., Mejía, A.M., Sánchez, A.P.D. (2002). Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_16

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