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A query written in natural language (NL) may involve several linguistic problems that cause a query not being interpreted or translated correctly into SQL. One of these problems is implicit information or semantic ellipsis, which can be understood as the omission of important words in the wording of a query written in NL. An exhaustive survey on NLIDB works has revealed that most of these works has not systematically dealt with semantic ellipsis. In experiments conducted on commercial NLIDBs, very poor results have been obtained (7% to 16.9%) when dealing with query corpora that involve semantic ellipsis. In this paper we propose a dialogue manager (DM) for a NLIDB for solving semantic ellipsis problems. The operation of this DM is based on a typification of elliptical problems found in queries, which permits to systematically deal with this problem. Additionally, the typification has two important characteristics: domain independence, which permits the typification to be applied to queries of different databases, and generality, which means that it holds for different languages such as English, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. These characteristics are inherited to the dialogue processes implemented in the DM, since they are based on this typification. In experiments conducted with this DM and a NLIDB on a corpus of elliptical queries, an increase of correctly answered queries of 30-35% was attained.