International Business Machines Corporation
Search queries of multi-datatype databases

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method, cognitive intelligence system and computer program product adapt a relational database containing multiple data types. Non-text tokens in the relational database are converted to a textual form. Text is produced based on relations of tokens in the relational database. A set of word vectors is produced for the tokens based on the text. A cognitive intelligence query expressed as a structured query language (SQL) query may be applied to the relational database using the set of word vectors. The form of non-text tokens is one of a numeric value, an SQL type, an image, a video, a time series, latitude and longitude, or chemical structures. A single word embedding model may be applied over one or more tokens in the text. A plurality of sets of preliminary word vectors are computed by applying more than one embedding model over all tokens in the text. The preliminary word vector sets are merged to form the set of word vectors.