Building natural language responses from natural language questions in the spatio-temporal context

Sami Faïz, Khaoula Mahmoudi, Ghada Landoulsi
2021 International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems  
With the evolving research in geographic information system (GIS) owing to its ability to support decision makers in different fields, there is a strong need to enabling all users; specialists and non-specialists to profit from this technology. Although, the key impediment to non-specialists is the language to interact with the GIS and especially its embedded geographic database (GDB) which require SQL skills. In this paper we explore a new approach which alleviates nomad GIS users from any
more » ... atting effort by only using the natural language as a GDB communication mean. The process is generally two-fold: 1) formatting the natural language user query to be processed by the GDB engine; 2) translating the GDB retrieved answer to a text easily interpreted by all GIS users. The resulting implemented system was integrated to the OpenJump GIS and has been evaluated to give satisfactory results.
doi:10.1504/ijiids.2021.10033770 fatcat:mganizqmvjeipdqmrhes4ti63e