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- From: leath@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Stephen Leath)
- Subject: Re: Natural Language users?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.120732.4146@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
- References: <MeNLTYq00WBLE1RnY7@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Jul17.114412.5036@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:07:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul17.114412.5036@dcatlas.dot.gov> sethg@dcatlas.dot.gov (Seth Grimes) writes:
- >jm5h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joyce Moore) writes:
- >
- >>Is anyone out there using Natural Language (users ask questions in
- >>English and NL writes and executes SQL to get the answers from your
- >>relational database)? We don't have any specific problems or questions,
- >>but would like to know if there is a forum like this available.
- >
- >Yes, the Federal Aviation Administration, which I support as a contractor,
- >uses Natural Language on a DECSystem 5100 against Ingres databases on a
- >VAXcluster. The networking link is made by running Ingres/Net over
- >DECnet between the DECSystem and the VAXcluster. We do not have any
- >Ingres products except Ingres/Net (except something we don't use -- the
- >run-time Ultix SQL (Ingres) that is bundled with Ultrix) on the DECSystem;
- >with Ingres/Net you do get the SQL terminal monitor and can send SQL
- >queries to your database servers elsewhere.
- >
- >Seth Grimes, Automated Sciences Group (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
-
- You don't mention which natural language product you use. We have been
- searching for a NL product which would run on a PC and parse freeform
- english language and querry an Ingress and or Oracle database. We
- thought our search was over about a year ago when we came across NLQ a NL
- product designed by Battelle a non profit scientific organization, they
- were selling it for $200 per PC. The beauty of the product was that it did
- not not have a VAX part it just ran on the PC and querried the database on
- the VAX. It allowed the user to enter a a freeform english language querry
- and if it did not totally understand (which seemed hard to do) it would
- querry the user to understand the querry and in this way it would build a
- thesaurus type dictionary of synonyms to understand future querries. The
- problem, however was that they were not up to ingres version 6 at the time,
- then they decided to sell the product rights and as yet it is still in limbo.
-
- Steve Leath, UPEI Computer Services.
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