A STEP Towards Realizing Codd’s Vision of Rendezvous with the Casual User
Summary: STEP enables natural-language access to relational databases via a semantic grammar mapping phrasal patterns to a decidable fragment of tuple relational calculus. Bi-directional parsing/generation enables clarification dialogs and inverse NL-to-TRC parsing, with admin-authored grammars for domain use and field testing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Michael J. Minock (Umeå University)
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@article{minock_vldb07,
title = {{A STEP Towards Realizing Codd’s Vision of Rendezvous with the Casual User}},
author = {Minock, Michael J.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '07},
pages = {1358--1359},
year = {2007}
}
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