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Towards an Online Multilingual Tool for Automated Conceptual Database Design

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Intelligent Distributed Computing XV (IDC 2022)

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The paper presents an early prototype of an online multilingual tool named TexToData, which is aimed at automatic conceptual database design. TexToData is the first online web-based tool enabling automatic conversion of a natural language text into the target conceptual database model represented by a UML class diagram. It implements the entire process through the orchestration of web services, whereby some core functionalities are carried out by external services. The tool usage is illustrated with examples of automatic generation of a conceptual database model from the text represented in different natural languages.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Unified Modeling Language.

  2. 2.

    XML Metadata Interchange.

  3. 3.

    http://www.textrazor.com.

  4. 4.

    http://www.bitext.com.

  5. 5.

    http://m-lab.etf.unibl.org:8080/amadeos.

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    http://m-lab.etf.unibl.org:8080/Textodata.

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    JavaScript Object Notation.

  8. 8.

    The implementation is based on jsUML2 (http://www.jrromero.net/tools/jsUML2).

  9. 9.

    Currently, only attribute names are generated, while other properties (such as data type, multiplicity, etc.) will be a part of our future work.

  10. 10.

    This textual specification represent the result of a direct translation of the sample source English text by the Google Translate service (https://translate.google.com). It is possible that CDMs of different structure will be generated for the same source text represented in some other NL, due to some translation inconsistencies.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Patre 5, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Drazen Brdjanin, Goran Banjac, Igor Dujlovic, Aleksandar Kelec, Nikola Obradovic, Danijela Banjac & Slavko Maric

  2. Syrmia, Kralja Petra I Karadjordjevica 14, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Mladen Grumic

  3. AUTO1 Group, Bergmannstraße 72, 10961, Berlin, Germany

    Milan Miscevic

  4. codecentric, Mese Selimovica 57, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Dragana Volas

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Brdjanin, D. et al. (2023). Towards an Online Multilingual Tool for Automated Conceptual Database Design. In: Braubach, L., Jander, K., Bădică, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XV. IDC 2022. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1089. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29104-3_16

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