Natural Language Query Restatements for Data Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity and cost of managing and storing large volumes of data across various storage systems pose challenges for organizations, as different data storage technologies offer varying performance benefits, leading to data dispersion across multiple locations and types of storage systems, making it difficult for users to interact with and understand the available data sets for business intelligence and analytics.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a natural language query processing system that allows users to submit queries without knowing the underlying data storage system interfaces, using query restatements to explain and improve query performance, and providing visualizations to verify results, while utilizing metadata to enhance data set management and processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored across multiple different storage systems to optimize performance and features, then data analysis capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a unified data storage interface as an intermediary layer between users and multiple storage systems. This interface abstracts the complexity of different storage technologies while enabling access to diverse data sets, thus maintaining high adaptability without increasing user-facing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified data storage interface provides universal access to multiple types of storage systems through a single interface. This multi-functional approach allows the system to work with various storage technologies (relational databases, object stores, data streams) without requiring separate interfaces for each, thereby improving versatility while managing complexity.
2Speed
If data is distributed across multiple storage locations to optimize performance, then data retrieval speed is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The unified data storage interface acts as a mediator that handles the complexity of accessing data distributed across multiple storage locations. Users interact with a single interface that automatically manages data retrieval from optimized locations, thus maintaining high retrieval speed while preserving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically managing data distribution and retrieval optimization without requiring user intervention. The unified interface handles the complexity of locating and retrieving data from multiple storage systems, allowing users to operate the system easily while maintaining high performance.
3Productivity
If specialized storage technologies are used for different data types, then data management performance is improved, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified data storage interface provides universal access to multiple specialized storage technologies through a single interface. This allows the system to leverage the performance benefits of different storage types for appropriate data while avoiding the cost of implementing and maintaining separate interface systems for each storage technology.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the interface parameter from multiple specialized interfaces to a single unified interface, while maintaining the ability to access specialized storage technologies. This parameter change reduces the cost of system complexity while preserving the performance benefits of specialized storage for different data types.
Data Source
AI summary
Query restatements may be provided for explaining natural language query results. A natural language query is received at a natural language query processing system. An intermediate representation of the natural language query is generated for executing the natural language query. The intermediate representation is translated into a natural language restatement of the natural language query. The natural language restatement is provided with a result of the natural language query via an interface of the natural language query processing system.