Natural Language Interface for Multi-Lingual Database

Abstract

India, a country where unity in diversity is practiced through several cultural, social, linguistic and religious adaptations in every facet of life. Here, communication between different states requires common platform or language of interpretation. Language happens to be a barrier in handling many societal issues including security of a state. The inter-state border activities reduce the efficiency of security deployments as the common goal of handling the miscreant is not available after he crosses the state border. So there is a need of natural language interface which can support different Indian languages. Database is an inevitable requirement of any recent applications. Such databases use formal language for search and other procedure. But formal languages are not user friendly for naive users. So we need natural language interface which can support query in user's own language. Our goal is to design Natural Language Database Interface for the conversion of Indian Languages. This work is an attempt to convert the FIR lodged in one state (Gujarat) into a common language which everybody may understand i.e. English