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The English
language provides an almost infinite variety of expressions which identify
the same concept. For example, the term "Toxic gases" might be given by
the user as a constraint to be avoided when improving a soil. This term will
not match the constraint of "Hazardous gases" in the Limitation table,
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despite the fact that the same idea is being conveyed. This problem becomes
worse as the schema becomes more complex and the number of records
increase. Additional research into natural language processing and data
dictionaries needs to be undertaken to address this problem.
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