Natural language database access using semi-automatically constructed translation knowledge

Abstract

In most natural language database interfaces (NLDBI), translation knowledge acquisition heavily depends on human specialties, consequently undermining domain portability. This paper attempts to semi-automatically construct translation knowledge by introducing a physical Entity-Relationship schema, and by simplifying translation knowledge structures. Based on this semi-automatically produced translation knowledge, a noun translation method is proposed in order to resolve NLDBI translation ambiguities.