Communications of the ACM
TEAM: an experiment in the design of transportable natural-language interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to algorithms
The complexity of concept languages
Information and Computation
Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
An architecture for more realistic conversational systems
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A reliable natural language interface to household appliances
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Conjunctive Query Containment Revisited
ICDT '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory
Algorithms for Enumerating All Perfect, Maximum and Maximal Matchings in Bipartite Graphs
ISAAC '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
A Terminological Knowledge Representation System with Complete Inference Algorithms
PDK '91 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Processing Declarative Knowledge
Computational Linguistics
A maximum-entropy-inspired parser
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
A terminological simplification transformation for natural language question-answering systems
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: experiments with the NJFun system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A reliable natural language interface to household appliances
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Is question answering an acquired skill?
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Mining natural language answers from the web
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Task learning by instruction in tailor
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Database selection in intranet mediators for natural language queries
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Enabling context-sensitive information seeking
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
An intelligent speech interface for personal assistants applied to knowledge management
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
AquaLog: an ontology-driven question answering system to interface the semantic web
NAACL-Demonstrations '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume: demonstrations
The virtual tele-tASK professor: semantic search in recorded lectures
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
On the transformation of sentences with genitive relations to SQL queries
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Question Answering in Restricted Domains: An Overview
Computational Linguistics
Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
Computational Linguistics
Making database systems usable
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
A goal-oriented interface to consumer electronics using planning and commonsense reasoning
Knowledge-Based Systems
SPHINX: Schema integration by example
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
NaLIX: A generic natural language search environment for XML data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A STEP towards realizing Codd's vision of rendezvous with the casual user
VLDB '07 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases
Towards portable natural language interfaces to knowledge bases - The case of the ORAKEL system
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Robust parsing and spoken negotiative dialogue with databases
Natural Language Engineering
Information scraps: How and why information eludes our personal information management tools
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
PANTO: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Ontologies
ESWC '07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
A Learning-Based Model for Semantic Mapping from Natural Language Questions to OWL
RSEISP '07 Proceedings of the international conference on Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms
Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System
NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB
NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Learning to create data-integrating queries
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Question/Answering Clarification Dialogues
MICAI '08 Proceedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Addressing ontology-based question answering with collections of user queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Transforming meaning representation grammars to improve semantic parsing
CoNLL '08 Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Entailment-based question answering for structured data
COLING '08 22nd International Conference on on Computational Linguistics: Demonstration Papers
Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
ECML PKDD '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Part I
Learning to transform natural to formal languages
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
Enabling domain-awareness for a generic natural language interface
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Corpus-based knowledge representation
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Automatically personalizing user interfaces
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Semantic video search using natural language queries
MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Generic querying of relational databases using natural language generation techniques
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
A statistical semantic parser that integrates syntax and semantics
CONLL '05 Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
C-Phrase: A system for building robust natural language interfaces to databases
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Learning an ensemble of semantic parsers for building dialog-based natural language interfaces
KI'06 Proceedings of the 29th annual German conference on Artificial intelligence
Framework for text-based conversational user-interface for business applications
KSEM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
EasyQuerier: a keyword based interface for web database integration system
DASFAA'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications
How useful are natural language interfaces to the semantic web for casual end-users?
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Ontology-based interpretation of keywords for semantic search
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
SPARK: adapting keyword query to semantic search
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Detecting expected answer relations through textual entailment
CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
Methodology and campaign design for the evaluation of semantic search tools
Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Search Workshop
Dialogue manager for a NLIDB for solving the semantic ellipsis problem in query formulation
KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part II
Natural language querying over databases using cascaded CRFs
ADBIS'10 Proceedings of the 14th east European conference on Advances in databases and information systems
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Deducing answers to english questions from structured data
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Learning dependency-based compositional semantics
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Pythia: compositional meaning construction for ontology-based question answering on the semantic web
NLDB'11 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Natural language processing and information systems
A survey on question answering technology from an information retrieval perspective
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Querying ontologies: a controlled english interface for end-users
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Constructing a generic natural language interface for an XML database
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Database Technology
Using a logic programming framework to control database query dialogues in natural language
ICLP'06 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Logic Programming
GINO – a guided input natural language ontology editor
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
On the transformation of sentences with genitive relations to SQL queries
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
A phrasal approach to natural language interfaces over databases
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
A domain independent natural language interface to databases capable of processing complex queries
MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Natural language interfaces: what is the problem? – a data-driven quantitative analysis
NLDB'09 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Semantic mapping between natural language questions and SQL queries via syntactic pairing
NLDB'09 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Resolving ambiguities in the semantic interpretation of natural language questions
IDEAL'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part I
DNIS'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Databases in Networked Information Systems
Generating SQL queries using natural language syntactic dependencies and metadata
NLDB'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
A semantic approach for question analysis
IEA/AIE'12 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: advanced research in applied artificial intelligence
Prepositions and conjunctions in a natural language interfaces to databases
ISPA'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
An efficient denotational semantics for natural language database queries
NLDB'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Evaluating semantic search query approaches with expert and casual users
ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part II
Learning dependency-based compositional semantics
Computational Linguistics
Sorry, i don't speak SPARQL: translating SPARQL queries into natural language
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
An ontology-based architecture for natural language access to relational databases
UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: design methods, tools, and interaction techniques for eInclusion - Volume Part I
Cognitive canonicalization of natural language queries using semantic strata
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems - Selected papers of KES2012-Part 1 of 2
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The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell phones. Yet NLIs are only usable if they map natural language questions to SQL queries correctly. As Schneiderman and Norman have argued, people are unwilling to trade reliable and predictable user interfaces for intelligent but unreliable ones. In this paper, we introduce a theoretical framework for reliable NLIs, which is the foundation for the fully implemented Precise NLI. We prove that, for a broad class of semantically tractable natural language questions, Precise is guaranteed to map each question to the corresponding SQL query. We report on experiments testing Precise on several hundred questions drawn from user studies over three benchmark databases. We find that over 80% of the questions are semantically tractable questions, which Precise answers correctly. Precise automatically recognizes the 20% of questions that it cannot handle, and requests a paraphrase. Finally, we show that Precise compares favorably with Mooney's learning NLI and with Microsoft's English Query product