Mining Based Natural Language to Database Interface

Abstract

Data/Information plays an important role in our daily life. This data can be generated from many sources like Hospitals, Organizations, and Educational Institutions etc. These data need to be managed and stored in a database. The database is the main source of information. To access, store and manipulate the data stored in a database is a critical task. This requires the knowledge of high level database languages like SQL, where the user writes the high level query to retrieve data from database. But this creates a complex problem for normal users, who are not aware of database languages. To minimize this complexity, NLQP (Natural Language Query System) is designed. This system provides an interface for the end users to write the query in natural language such as English and obtains the result back in Natural Language. The query written in natural language will be converted to SQL like queries by the NLQP system and the required results will be fetched from the database for the user. The main goal of NLQP system is to provide user friendly communication between the end user and the computer from where the data is to be fetched.