PRECISE on ATIS: Semantic Tractability and Experimental Results

Abstract

The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people ac-cess information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell phones. Yet NLIs are only usable if they map natural lan-guage questions to SQL queries correctly — people are un-willing to trade reliable and predictable user interfaces for intelligent but unreliable ones. We describe a reliable NLI, PRECISE, that incorporates a modern statistical paser and a semantic module. PRECISE provably handles a large class of natural language questions correctly. On the benchmark ATIS data set, PRECISE achieves 93.8 % accuracy.

Cite

Text

Popescu et al. "PRECISE on ATIS: Semantic Tractability and Experimental Results." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.

Markdown

[Popescu et al. "PRECISE on ATIS: Semantic Tractability and Experimental Results." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2004/popescu2004aaai-precise/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{popescu2004aaai-precise,
  title     = {{PRECISE on ATIS: Semantic Tractability and Experimental Results}},
  author    = {Popescu, Ana-Maria and Armanasu, Alex and Etzioni, Oren and Ko, David and Yates, Alexander},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2004},
  pages     = {1026-1027},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2004/popescu2004aaai-precise/}
}