Short communication: A tool for access to relational databases in natural language

Authors:
Nikos Papadakis;Pavlos Kefalas;Manolis Stilianakakis
Affiliations:
Department of Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece;Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Many DB management systems use SQL syntax in order to provide a mechanism for data accessing. Although SQL is widely used, its syntax is not very comprehensive to a typical user. In this paper we present a tool capable of transforming simple queries formatted in natural language into their equivalent SQL queries. The purpose of this study is to provide a query syntax method closer to natural language. We currently support three languages: English, German and Greek and we show how our tool can be extended easily from a user so as to support any other language.