Interface design for a Chinese database system.

Lee Fu Wing.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-104).Abstract --- p.iChapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- The contribution of this project --- p.3Chapter 1.3 --- Scope of Thesis --- p.3Chapter 2. --- Background Study --- p.4Chapter 2.1 --- Related works of General DBMS User Interface --- p.4Chapter 2.1.1 --- Linear System --- p.4Chapter 2.1.2 --- Form-Based System --- p.6Chapter 2.1.3 --- Other Approaches --- p.8Chapter 2.2 --- Related works of Chinese System --- p.9Chapter 2.2.1 --- Artificial Natural Language --- p.9Chapter 2.2.2 --- """Chinesized"" English Database Query Language" --- p.9Chapter 2.2.3 --- Chiq1 --- p.10Chapter 3. --- Design Principles --- p.11Chapter 3.1 --- Data Model --- p.11Chapter 3.2 --- Language Naturalness --- p.11Chapter 3.3 --- Novice Users vs Expert Users --- p.12Chapter 3.4 --- Practical Requirements --- p.14Chapter 3.4.1 --- Relational Algebra Operators --- p.15Chapter 3.4.2 --- Divide and Conquer Querying Strategy --- p.16Chapter 3.4.3 --- Unit of Operations --- p.17Chapter 3.4.4 --- Graphical User Interface (GUI) --- p.18Chapter 3.4.5 --- Direct Object Manipulation --- p.19Chapter 3.5 --- SQL Expressiveness --- p.19Chapter 4. --- Query Specification in Chinese --- p.21Chapter 4.1 --- Defining Elementary Operations --- p.21Chapter 5. --- Implementation of the System Design --- p.29Chapter 5.1 --- Hardware and Software Configuration --- p.29Chapter 5.1.1 --- Basic Components --- p.29Chapter 5.1.2 --- Procedures for Data Retrieval --- p.30Chapter 5.2 --- System Design --- p.32Chapter 5.2.1 --- Common Operations --- p.32Chapter 5.2.2 --- Select the Required Tables --- p.33Chapter 5.2.3 --- Performing Join --- p.35Chapter 5.2.4 --- Performing Restriction --- p.36Chapter 5.2.5 --- Performing Projection --- p.37Chapter 5.2.6 --- Completion of Query --- p.38Chapter 5.2.7 --- Other Basic Operations --- p.39Chapter 5.2.8 --- Set Operations --- p.40Chapter 5.2.9 --- Composing and Decomposing a Complex Query --- p.41Chapter 6. --- Query Formulation in the Interface --- p.42Chapter 6.1 --- Example 1 (Simple Query - Novice User) --- p.45Chapter 6.2 --- Example 2 (Simple Query - Expert User) --- p.65Chapter 6.3 --- Example 3 (Simple Query with Group-By Feature) --- p.77Chapter 6.4 --- Example 4 (Complex Query with Set Operations) --- p.87Chapter 7. --- Summary and Conclusions --- p.90Chapter 7.1 --- Summary of Accomplishment --- p.90Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.94Chapter 7.3 --- Conclusion --- p.95Chapter 8. --- References --- p.96Chapter 9. --- Appendix A : 66 Testing Queries --- p.105Chapter 10. --- Appendix B : Glossary --- p.112Chapter 11. --- Appendix C : Programs Listing --- p.11