Natural language interface for multilingual 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. Any application catering to inter-state domain has a backend to process the information. Such databases use regional language to store and retrieve information. These regional languages are not user friendly for non-native users. Our goal is to design Natural Language Database Interface for the conversion of one of the Indian Languages i.e. Gujarati to English.