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A Natural Language Interface Plug-In For Cooperative Query Answering In Biological Databases, Hasan M. Jamil
A Natural Language Interface Plug-In For Cooperative Query Answering In Biological Databases, Hasan M. Jamil
Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship
Abstract
Background
One of the many unique features of biological databases is that the mere existence of a ground data item is not always a precondition for a query response. It may be argued that from a biologist's standpoint, queries are not always best posed using a structured language. By this we mean that approximate and flexible responses to natural language like queries are well suited for this domain. This is partly due to biologists' tendency to seek simpler interfaces and partly due to the fact that questions in biology involve high level concepts that are open to interpretations computed …