Multilanguage natural user interface to database

Abstract

Nowadays most of people of developed economy countries interact with software every day. As a result of computer systems expansion to all scope of people's activity the problem of transition from visual and command interfaces to natural language user interfaces is thrown into the sharp relief. Computational linguistics and natural language processing methods are described in this article. Represent a formal definition of a dialogue system as a Markov decision process. Methods of natural language manipulation are applied in machine translation software systems, systems of search and exchange the data, text annotation and expert systems. Prototype of natural language user interface to structured data source is developed. As a result it is convert natural language user's query to SQL query to database. Also showed application of Levenshtein distance for processing natural language query to SQL query to database. Natural language user interface is created to predefined subject field. User interface interacts to database that contain information about existent program libraries and frameworks. Consequently, using natural language processing methods it is possible to develop user natural language user interface providing capability to interact with machine.