Authors: Elisabeth Métais, Gilles Levreau, Jean-Noël Meunier
Tags: 1993, conceptual modeling
This paper discusses the contribution of natural language techniques to some functions aiming at elaborating the conceptual schema in database design. The schema building mainly requires specification, validation and views integration means. Since these three functions extensively involve the information keepers, the reliability of the result is highly dependent on the quality of the communication between the information keepers sphere and the technical sphere (conceptual schema, designer, CASE tool). Natural language may be a communication vector between these actors. Natural language techniques are used not only to understand and generate texts, but also to reinforce algorithms of other functions, such as view integration. The natural language techniques we have chosen are mainly based on Fillmore’s semantic cases and Sowa’s conceptual graphs. Each technique may be used by several functions of schema manipulation. For example, the detection of semantic cases is needed as well to paraphrase the conceptual schema as to reinforce the views integration algorithm.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0024367
