Masinde, Muthoni and Bagula, Antoine and Wainaina, James (2011) Using NLIDB to Make Weather Information Relevant to Kenyan Farmers, Proceedings of 2011 African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing, 19-23 September, 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, Springer.
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The era of the Internet has brought with it a strong wave that has led to the ever-growing thirst for access to any information by anyone, everywhere, anytime and using anything. This has brought with it some form of information-divide that disadvantages the illiterates of this world. For instance, though most farmers in Kenya are illiterate, they often need to access crucial weather information to aid in their decision-making. Among the consequences of this development is the rekindling of research into the Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDB); an area where research vigor had gone cold. In this paper, we present a system that uses NLIDB to allow non-expert end users in Kenya to access weather information by typing questions in English language. This is an intermediary step in a larger project whose goal is to implement a weather monitoring system for use by farmers in Kenya that allows queries posed (written and/or spoken from a mobile phone) in any local language.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Natural Language Interfaces to Databases, weather forecast information, Kenyan Farmers |
| Subjects: | Information systems > Information retrieval |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2011 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:33 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/722 |
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