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STUDIES IN THE EVALUATION OF A DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY SYSTEM
There is growing consensus that some of the most crucial questions
concerning the feasibility and desirability of natural language interfaces to
databases can only be resolved by empirical research. This paper reports the
results of several empirical studies which investigated the same
domain-independent natural language query system, using various applications in
two different natural languages - English and German. Taken together, these
experiments involved about 100 subjects and over 12,000 queries, constituting
the bulk of empirical evaluations of natural query language systems reported to
date. Some definitive results are derived from the combined experience, and
plans are outlined to resolve several of the remaining issues.Information Systems Working Papers Serie