Survey of the state of the art in human language technology
Survey of the state of the art in human language technology
Integrating keyword search into XML query processing
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Naive Semantics to Support Automated Database Design
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Enhancing information systems management with natural language processing techniques
Data & Knowledge Engineering - DKE 40
NLDB '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems-Revised Papers
ER '93 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach: Entity-Relationship Approach
XRANK: ranked keyword search over XML documents
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
DBXplorer: A System for Keyword-Based Search over Relational Databases
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
Bidirectional expansion for keyword search on graph databases
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
The SphereSearch engine for unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML and web documents
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
Précis: The Essence of a Query Answer
ICDE '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
Multilingual Speech Processing
Multilingual Speech Processing
Efficient IR-style keyword search over relational databases
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
Précis: from unstructured keywords as queries to structured databases as answers
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Improving question answering using named entity recognition
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
A phrasal approach to natural language interfaces over databases
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Comprehensible answers to précis queries
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Natural language reporting for ETL processes
Proceedings of the ACM 11th international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
Representation of conceptual ETL designs in natural language using Semantic Web technology
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Logos: a system for translating queries into narratives
SIGMOD '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
CineCubes: cubes as movie stars with little effort
Proceedings of the sixteenth international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
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In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, however, where information prevails in most activities of society, serving people, applications, and devices in dramatically increasing numbers, this paradigm has proved to be very limited. On the query side, much work has been done on moving towards keyword queries over structured data. In our previous work, we have touched the other side as well, and have proposed a paradigm that generates entire databases in response to keyword queries. In this paper, we continue in the same direction and propose synthesizing textual answers in response to queries of any kind over structured data. In particular, we study the transformation of a dynamically-generated logical database subset into a narrative through a customizable, extensible, and templatebased process. In doing so, we exploit the structured nature of database schemas and describe three generic translation modules for different formations in the schema, called unary, split, and join modules. We have implemented the proposed translation procedure into our own database front end and have performed several experiments evaluating the textual answers generated as several features and parameters of the system are varied. We have also conducted a set of experiments measuring the effectiveness of such answers on users. The overall results are very encouraging and indicate the promise that our approach has for several applications.