Proc. of the NYU symposium on user interfaces on Human factors and interactive computer systems
Using restricted natural language for data retrieval: a plan for field evaluation
Proc. of the NYU symposium on user interfaces on Human factors and interactive computer systems
Human factors comparison of a procedural and a nonprocedural query language
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Improving the human factors aspect of database interactions
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Human Factors Studies of Database Query Languages: A Survey and Assessment
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
An English language question answering system for a large relational database
Communications of the ACM
Information retrieval using a transportable natural language interface
SIGIR '83 Proceedings of the 6th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Operating statistics for the transformational question answering system
Computational Linguistics
TEAM: a transportable natural-language interface system
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Problems with domain-independent natural language database access systems
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Use of Psychological Experimentation as an Aid to Development of a Query Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A psychological study of query by example
AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition
Human factors evaluation of two data base query languages: square and sequel
AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition
Natural language programming: styles, strategies, and contrasts
IBM Systems Journal
On natural language based computer systems
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Interpretation of natural language in an information system
IBM Journal of Research and Development
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Are natural language systems for database queries meeting their goals, and are these goals appropriate? The recently completed Advanced Language Project at New York University combined a field experiment with two laboratory studies to examine these issues by comparing performance between subjects using the formal database language SQL and subjects using the prototype natural language system, USL. This article describes the design and results of the larger laboratory experiment. The results presented offer some promise for the usability of natural language under certain conditions.