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NaLIXNatural Language Interface for querying XML Huahai Yang Department of Information Studies Outline Motivation Basic ideas System design Live demonstration of NaLIX User study Conclusion Q A XML is Everywhere Extensible Markup Language (XML) for data exchange and storage Almost every application domain is moving towards XML based document formats Digital libraries Office documents GIS ... How to Query XML? We can of course use keywords search. Example XML Fragment Example Query More Powerful Queries Aggregation What are the books with more than 5 authors? Value Join Find all the books, where an author of each book is the same as an author of Pride and Prejudice. Nesting Find all the articles published in 2000 and with keyword “XML”. Standard Approach - XQuery XQuery a structured query language – search for specific information within XML documents primarily based on path expression Standard Approach - XQuery Another Document Structure The same XQuery no longer works Standard Approach - XQuery XQuery is powerful, but …… Solution 1 – Study Schema Ask the user to study the structure of bib.xml and write a query in XQuery Solution 1 – Study Schema Solution 2 – Keyword Search Keyword Search – IR approach Discard all tags: “Mary” Treat tags as keywords: “book article year title author Mary” Solution 2 – Keyword Search Solution 2 – Keyword Search Pro -Required no knowledge of document structure Con -Does not take advantage of the structure -Cannot express complex query semantic Our Approach Taking advantage of whatever partial knowledge user may have on document schema Support wide range of queries from regular XQuery to keyword search Minimum effort required for the user Natural language query is desirable Basic Ideas Map parsed natural language query into XQuery. Proximity in natural language parse tree should correspond to proximity in matched XML tree XML is human readable and is