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    A natural language database interface for SQL-tutor (1999)

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    Knowles, S.
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    An investigation into integrating a database Natural Language Processing (NLP) component into the SQL-Tutor Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) is presented. Tailor-made NLP systems created by a programmer, and NLP systems created automatically by a general database NLP system, are considered with respect to the requirements of SQL-Tutor. A tailor-made system is created for the MOVIES database using a semantic grammar, and its strengths and weaknesses are demonstrated. Three 'levels' of information are identified in the tailor-made system; database independent information, database structure and database semantics. These levels are used to assess a commercial system for automatic database NLP generation. Some weaknesses are identified in this system and a proposal of an 'authoring tool' to remedy these weaknesses is presented.

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    08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0801 - Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing::080107 - Natural Language Processing
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