Natural Language for Database Queries: A Laboratory Study

Are natural language systems for database queries meeting their goals?, and, are these goals appropriate? The recently completed Advanced Language Project at New York University combined a field experiment with two laboratory studies to examine these issues by comparing performance between subjects...

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Published inMIS quarterly Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 47 - 61
Main Authors Vassiliou, Yannis, Jarke, Matthias, Stohr, Edward A., Turner, Jon A., White, Norman H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Society for Information Management and The Management Information Systems Research Center of the University of Minnesota 01.12.1983
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Computer systems
Conference on Information Systems Papers
Database design
Natural language
Query languages
Research facilities
SQL
Usability
Verbs
Words
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Summary:Are natural language systems for database queries meeting their goals?, and, are these goals appropriate? The recently completed Advanced Language Project at New York University combined a field experiment with two laboratory studies to examine these issues by comparing performance between subjects using the formal database language SQL and subjects using the proto-type natural language system, USL. This article describes the design and results of the larger laboratory experiment. The results presented offer some promise for the usability of natural language under certain conditions.
ISSN:0276-7783
2162-9730
DOI:10.2307/248746