Natural language updates to databases through dialogue

Authors:
Michael Minock
Affiliations:
Department of Computing Science, Ume University, Sweden
Venue:
NLDB'06 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper reopens the long dormant topic of natural language updates to databases. A protocol to handle database updates of the IDM (Insert-Delete-Modify) class is proposed and implemented. This protocol exploits modern relational update facilities and constraints and structures update dialogues using DAMSL dialogue acts. The protocol may be used with any natural language parser that maps to relational queries.