natural language database query

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Structured database languages such as SQL can be difficult for novices (and experts!) and so {[natural language interfaces}} may be used to allow a user to say something such as, "give me a list of items that need reordering"", rather than, ""SELECT * from Items, StockLevels WHERE Items.id = StockLevels.item_id AND StockLevels.in_stock < Items.reoder_level".

Used in Chap. 13: pages 204, 208, 213

Also known as database access, database queries