this is pretty cool ! could you talk about the parser-generator and ER relationships ? I was looking to build something similar for a webapp and was stuck at how to generate the autocompletes.
The autocomplete is provided by my parser-combinator library which is designed in a very generic way. It can be used for any application, not just natural language queries.
About the parser generator: the ER description provides natural language phrases for every entity and relationship. From this the parser builder is able to create parser combinators. There are some hard-coded assumptions and parsers for common data types such as dates and numerical figures.
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this is pretty cool ! could you talk about the parser-generator and ER relationships ? I was looking to build something similar for a webapp and was stuck at how to generate the autocompletes.
The autocomplete is provided by my parser-combinator library which is designed in a very generic way. It can be used for any application, not just natural language queries.
About the parser generator: the ER description provides natural language phrases for every entity and relationship. From this the parser builder is able to create parser combinators. There are some hard-coded assumptions and parsers for common data types such as dates and numerical figures.