{"id":982,"date":"2019-06-28T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/datascience\/?p=982"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:40:14","slug":"the-rise-of-natural-language-interfaces-to-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/datascience\/the-rise-of-natural-language-interfaces-to-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kurt Stockinger was invited to contribute a blog to ACM SIGMOD \u2013 the leading  world-wide community of database research. The blog discusses recent  technological advances of natural language interfaces to databases. 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