A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational Databases - Language Aspects.

Gottfried Vossen, Volkert Brosda: A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational Databases - Language Aspects. SIGMOD Conference 1985: 343-353

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  author    = {Gottfried Vossen and
               Volkert Brosda},
  editor    = {Shamkant B. Navathe},
  title     = {A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational
               Databases - Language Aspects},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1985 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
               Management of Data, Austin, Texas, May 28-31, 1985},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1985},
  pages     = {343-353},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/318898.318934, db/conf/sigmod/VossenB85.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/85},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

A high-level user front-end for the experimental relational database system MEMODAX is described. It is based on the universal relation model, and it allows quering and updating a database without any knowledge of its conceptual structure. We survey the main features of USIL, the Universal Schema Interface Language for MEMODAX, and show how to retrieve data from a database without logical access path specification. We additionally demonstrate how to update the database when the user is aware of attributes only. We give a description of the syntax and parts of the semantics of USIL indicating that this language is getting close to a natural language interface.

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