Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System

  • Authors:
  • Catalina Hallett;David Hardcastle

  • Affiliations:
  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK MK6 7AA;The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK MK6 7AA

  • Venue:
  • NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a feasibility study for a bootstrapping natural language database query interface which uses natural language generation (nlg) technology to address the interpretation problem faced by existing nlidbsystems. In particular we assess the feasibility of automatically acquiring the requisite semantic and linguistic resources for the nlgcomponent using the database metadata and data content, a domain-specific ontology and a corpus of associated text documents, such as end-user manuals, for example.