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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1996
Tomoharu Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for retrieving data on a database and inputting the retrieved data to an electronic spreadsheet so as to record the data thereon includes inputting, through an input apparatus by a natural language, a descriptive sentence relating to the data to be recorded in the spreadsheet. The input descriptive sentence is processed by a natural language interface to generate a retrieval formula for retrieval on the database. A retrieval result extractor executes data retrieval on the database by the retrieval formula, eliminates unnecessary accompanying data from results of the retrieval, and inputs the thus obtained table data to the spreadsheet so as to record the data therein.