Putting Databases on the Web (Summary)

[Nick Arnett]

At 10:06 AM 2/5/98 -0800, Andrew J. Mutch wrote:
>The following is a summary of responses I recieved regarding my question
>of how to allow patrons to query an Access Database by way of an HTML form
>with responses also produced in HTML.

Let me add one more suggestion, a product that I've only seen demo'ed, but
it certainly looked good to our head of advanced technology and me.  It's
English Wizard from Linguistic Technology.  See
http://www.englishwizard.com/  This tool turns natural language queries
into SQL.  There are a lot of gizmos around that claim to do a good job of
parsing natural language and we're very skeptical of them, especially since
our search engine is heavily based on linguistics.  But this one seems to
actually work well.

Nick Arnett
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    Senior Product Manager, Knowledge Applications
        Verity Inc.  (http://www.verity.com/)
        "Connecting People with Information"
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