Entering a Natural Language Query ... ; If you wish to, you may enter a query in the form of a sentence or question. The software will automatically identify the important words and phrases within your query and remove the "noise words".
www.thunderstone.com/doc/nlq.html
As regards that search vision, I've been seeing it in the trade press since I started reading it, which would be around 1980. I believe I recall an almost word-for-word duplicate in Computerworld back then, talking about some new COBOL program generator equipped with a query analyzer that could do this kind of thing,
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Encyclopedia article about natural language query. Information about natural language query in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... natural language query; Natural Language Question Answer System; Natural language recognition; Natural language recognition;
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This paper describes the Nchiql: a Chinese natural language query system to database. With a transportable query interface to Chinese database system, it resolves the problems appearing in traditional database query system and natural language interface. ... TI - Nchiql: A Chinese Natural Language Query System to Databases;
doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DANTE.1999.844992
In the mid 1990s, Software AG offered a product called Esperant that pioneered what's called Natural Language Query (NLQ). Microsoft also latched onto the approach, bundling a free "English Query" utility in SQL Server 2000. While these two tools seem to have drifted into obscurity, Progress Software is now reviving...
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Posted by John Murrell on July 1st, 2008 at 12:18 pm | Categorized as Uncategorized ... As rumored last week, Microsoft, with the notion of a Yahoo deal receding quickly in the rear-view mirror, is taking another tack in its efforts to stem the dominance of Google search — ... There are challenges aplenty in the strategy.
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Natural language database query interface for Jet, ODBC and OLE DB compliant databases. Powerful royalty-free ad hoc query tools using the language you know best, English. ... Currently, our free natural language Web search utility works only with Windows/Microsoft IE 5.0 and higher.; Please explore the rest of our site,
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Used widely by industry leaders, EasyAsk leverages its unique combination of natural language query and report search technology in two distinct offerings: EasyAsk for eCommerce and EasyAsk for Business Intelligence.
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): A natural language query interface for databases provides the user friendliness in retrieving the desired information by querying in a native natural language. ... 3 Natural Language Query Processing in Korean Interface for Object-Oriented Databases – Chae, Lee - 1995...
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Natural Language Query Recommendation in Conversation Systems Shimei Pan IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Drive Hawthorne, NY 10532 shimei@us.ibm.com Abstract In this paper, we address a critical problem in conversation systems: limited input interpretation capabilities.
www.aaai.org/Papers/IJCAI/2007/IJCAI07-275.pdf