The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language

Summary: REMIT paraphrases relational queries into natural language via a formal NL interpreter for query verification in relational DBs. Integrates with ICL's NEL to translate English into QUERYMASTER, enabling end-to-end verification of relational queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7766
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 4.7180617e-05
Overall Rank: 7,530 | 47.62%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. B.G.T. Lowden
2. A.N. De Roeck

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11,551	Toward Pure Natural Language Interaction with Databases	2020	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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