Methods, apparatus, and data structures for facilitating a...

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2006-01-31

2006-01-31

{hacek over (S)}mits, Tālivaldis Ivars (Department: 2654)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Translation machine

C704S009000, C704S004000, C704S010000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06993475

ABSTRACT:
An authoring tool (or process) to facilitate the performance of an annotation function and an indexing function. The annotation function may generate informational annotations and word annotations to a database design schema (e.g., an entity-relationship diagram or “ERD”). The indexing function may analyze the words of the annotations by classifying the words in accordance with a concordance and dictionary, and assign a normalized weight to each word of each of the annotations based on the classification(s) of the word(s) of the annotation.A query translator (or query translation process) to (i) accept a natural language query from a user interface process, (ii) convert the natural language query to a formal command query (e.g., an SQL query) using the indexed annotations generated by the authoring tool and the database design schema, and (iii) present the formal command query to a database management process for interrogating the relational database.

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