The linguistic level: Contribution for conceptual design, view integration, reuse and documentation

摘要

This article presents the linguistic level of KHEOPS, describing its structure and the information it contains. Even though natural language specification interfaces are a main aspect of the KHEOPS environment we limit our discussion to the paraphrasing, view integration, and schema reuse aspects, presenting their main characteristics and how they make use of the said level. In fact, the major problem in these procedures, is the need to understand the schema semantics. To help in this sense, the linguistic level of KHEOPS offers semantic relations, Fillmore's semantic cases and Sowa's conceptual graphs stored in semantic electronic dictionaries.