1.1 Organization of this paper
Section 2 lays the foundation of concepts necessary to understanding our approach.
Section 3 presents our formal approach to analyzing noun phrases, what
we consider to be the primary challenge of NLIs to databases. Section 4 presents
our GUI-based administration tool in which one populates the system with the
formal elements described in sections 2 and 3. Section 5 presents an initial experiment
that shows that reasonably skilled subjects can effectively use our authoring
tool. Section 6 compares our approach with other approaches to building
NLIs to databases. Section 7 concludes.