Quantifiers in Action Generalized Quantification in Query, Logical and Natural Languages /

• Main Author: Badia, Antonio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Database Systems, 37
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Communication Networks.

The database industry is clearly a multi-billion, world-wide, all-encompassing part of the software world. This is part thanks to the standardization of query languages in the form of SQL. And yet, it is well known that SQL has significant shortcomings. Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantificat...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Concepts
• Generalized Quantifiers
• QLGQ: A Query Language with Generalized Quantifiers
• Implementation and Optimization of Standard GQs
• Quantifier Prefixes
• Cooperative Query Answering
• Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
• Extensions
• Conclusion.