Comprehensible answers to précis queries

Simitsis, A; Koutrika, G

dc.contributor.author	Simitsis, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Koutrika, G	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:43:59Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:43:59Z
dc.date.issued	2006	en
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/31589
dc.subject	Query Answering	en
dc.subject	Query Language	en
dc.subject	Relational Database	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Theory & Methods	en
dc.subject.other	Formal logic	en
dc.subject.other	Information retrieval	en
dc.subject.other	Knowledge acquisition	en
dc.subject.other	Knowledge based systems	en
dc.subject.other	Relational database systems	en
dc.subject.other	Logical databases	en
dc.subject.other	Logical subsets	en
dc.subject.other	Multi-relation databases	en
dc.subject.other	Semi-automatic method	en
dc.subject.other	Query languages	en
dc.title	Comprehensible answers to précis queries	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1007/11767138_11	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11767138_11	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2006	en
heal.abstract	Users without knowledge of schemas or query languages have difficulties in accessing information stored in databases. Commercial and research efforts have focused on keyword-based searches. Among them, précis queries generate entire multi-relation databases, which are logical subsets of existing ones, instead of individual relations. The logical database subset contains not only items directly related to the query selections but also items implicitly related to them in various ways. Earlier work has identified the need of providing the naïve user with meaningful answers to his questions and has. suggested the translation of précis query answer in narrative form. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method that translates the relational output of a précis query into a synthesis of results. We describe a translator engine that uses a template mechanism for generating a précis in a narrative form through a set of reusable templates. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.	en
heal.publisher	SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN	en
heal.journalName	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	en
heal.bookName	LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/11767138_11	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000238486900011	en
dc.identifier.volume	4001 LNCS	en
dc.identifier.spage	142	en
dc.identifier.epage	156	en