04552nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-45043-3 DE-He213 20251030110837.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231124s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031450433 978-3-031-45043-3 10.1007/978-3-031-45043-3 doi QA76.9.D3 UN bicssc COM021000 bisacsh UN thema Li, Yunyao. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67470 Natural Language Interfaces to Databases [electronic resource] / by Yunyao Li, Dragomir Radev, Davood Rafiei. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XVII, 236 p. 221 illus., 131 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, 2153-5426 Chapter 1 Overview -- Chapter 2 Building an NLIDB: The Basics -- Chapter 3 Data and Query Model -- Chapter 4 Text to Data -- Chapter 5 Evaluation -- Chapter 6 Data to Text -- Chapter 7 Interactivity -- Index. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDBs), an indispensable tool in the ever-expanding realm of data-driven exploration and decision making. After first demonstrating the importance of the field using an interactive ChatGPT session, the book explores the remarkable progress and general challenges faced with real-world deployment of NLIDBs. It goes on to provide readers with a holistic understanding of the intricate anatomy, essential components, and mechanisms underlying NLIDBs and how to build them. Key concepts in representing, querying, and processing structured data as well as approaches for optimizing user queries are established for the reader before their application in NLIDBs is explored. The book discusses text to data through early relevant work on semantic parsing and meaning representation before turning to cutting-edge advancements in how NLIDBs are empowered to comprehend and interpret human languages. Various evaluation methodologies, metrics, datasets and benchmarks that play a pivotal role in assessing the effectiveness of mapping natural language queries to formal queries in a database and the overall performance of a system are explored. The book then covers data to text, where formal representations of structured data are transformed into coherent and contextually relevant human-readable narratives. It closes with an exploration of the challenges and opportunities related to interactivity and its corresponding techniques for each dimension, such as instances of conversational NLIDBs and multi-modal NLIDBs where user input is beyond natural language. This book provides a balanced mixture of theoretical insights, practical knowledge, and real-world applications that will be an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students eager to explore the fundamental concepts of NLIDBs. Database management. 60571 User interfaces (Computer systems). 64688 Human-computer interaction. 64854 Natural language processing (Computer science). 65131 Information storage and retrieval systems. 65568 Computer science. 58552 Database Management. 60571 User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. 66577 Natural Language Processing (NLP). 66164 Information Storage and Retrieval. 65570 Models of Computation. 66444 Radev, Dragomir. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67471 Rafiei, Davood. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 67472 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031450426 Printed edition: 9783031450440 Printed edition: 9783031450457 Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, 2153-5426 67473 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45043-3 ZDB-2-SXSC 56613 56613