Making database systems usable
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
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
Keyword search on structured and semi-structured data
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Constructing composite web services from natural language requests
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Proactive natural language search engine: tapping into structured data on the web
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
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We present DaNaLIX, a prototype domain-adaptive natural language interface for querying XML. Our system is an extension of NaLIX, a generic natural language interface for querying XML. While retaining the portability of a purely generic system like NaLIX, DaNaLIX can exploit domain knowledge, whenever available, to its advantage for query translation. More importantly, in DaNaLIX such domain knowledge does not have to be pre-defined; instead it can be automatically obtained from the interactions between a user and the system. In this demonstration, we describe the overall architecture of DaNaLIX. We also demonstrate how a generic system like DaNaLIX can take advantage of domain knowledge to improve its usability and query translation accuracy. In addition, we show DaNaLIX still possesses the portability of a generic system by using data collections from three different domains. Finally, we present how domain knowledge can be obtained through user interactions in an automatic fashion.