04394nam a22005655i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001500186072002300201072001400224100008000238245011600318250001800434264007500452300006800527336002600595337002600621338003600647347002400683490005400707505021300761520190100974650003202875650004702907650003902954650005902993650005403052650002903106650003203135650005903167650004603226650004603272650003403318700008503352700008403437710003403521773002603555776003603581776003603617776003603653830006103689856004603750912001503796999001703811978-3-031-45043-3DE-He21320251030110837.0cr nn 008mamaa231124s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314504339978-3-031-45043-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-45043-32doi 4aQA76.9.D3 7aUN2bicssc 7aCOM0210002bisacsh 7aUN2thema1 aLi, Yunyao.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut96747010aNatural Language Interfaces to Databasesh[electronic resource] /cby Yunyao Li, Dragomir Radev, Davood Rafiei.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXVII, 236 p. 221 illus., 131 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSynthesis Lectures on Data Management,x2153-54260 aChapter 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.  aThis 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. 0aDatabase management.960571 0aUser interfaces (Computer systems).964688 0aHuman-computer interaction.964854 0aNatural language processing (Computer science).965131 0aInformation storage and retrieval systems.965568 0aComputer science.95855214aDatabase Management.96057124aUser Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.96657724aNatural Language Processing (NLP).96616424aInformation Storage and Retrieval.96557024aModels of Computation.9664441 aRadev, Dragomir.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut9674711 aRafiei, Davood.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut9674722 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303145042608iPrinted edition:z978303145044008iPrinted edition:z9783031450457 0aSynthesis Lectures on Data Management,x2153-542696747340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45043-3  aZDB-2-SXSC  c56613d56613