A knowledge-based system for generating informative responses to indirect database queries |
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Authors: | Xu Wu Nick Cercone Tadao Ichikawa |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, S4S 0A2 Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada;(2) Information Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, 724 Higash-Hiroshima, Japan |
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Abstract: | The objective of this study is to develop a knowledge-base framework for generatingcooperative answers to indirect queries. Anindirect query can be considered as a nonstandard database query in which a user did not specify explicitly the information request. In a cooperative query answering system, a user's indirect query should be answered with an informative response, either anaffirmative response or anegative response, which is generated on the basis of the inference of the user's information request and the reformulation of the users' indirect query.This paper presents methods for inferring users' intended actions, determining users' information requirements, and for automatically reformulating indirect queries into direct queries. The inference process is carried out on the basis of a user model, calluser action model, as well as the query context. Two kinds ofinformative responses, i.e.affirmative responses andnegative responses can be generated by arule-based approach. |
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Keywords: | informative responses cooperative query system knowledge-based query answering indirect queries |
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