Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
Natural language query processing in a temporal database
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Readings in natural language processing
Readings in natural language processing
Identifying the knowledge requirements of an expert system's natural language processing interface
Proceedings of the Second Conference of the British Computer Society, human computer interaction specialist group on People and computers: designing for usability
Temporal semantics and natural language processing in a decision support system
Information Systems
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Principles of database and knowledge-base systems, Vol. I
Principles of database and knowledge-base systems, Vol. I
Tense quantifiers, and contexts
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Temporal ontology and temporal reference
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Exploring artificial intelligence
Natural language querying of historical databases
Computational Linguistics
Formal semantics and pragmatics for natural language querying
Formal semantics and pragmatics for natural language querying
The logic of typed feature structures
The logic of typed feature structures
Understanding the new SQL: a complete guide
Understanding the new SQL: a complete guide
Temporal databases: theory, design, and implementation
Temporal databases: theory, design, and implementation
Time and modality in a natural language interface to a planning system
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on natural language processing
Temporal logic (vol. 1): mathematical foundations and computational aspects
Temporal logic (vol. 1): mathematical foundations and computational aspects
Evaluating natural language processing systems
Communications of the ACM
Formal semantics for time in databases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language
The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language
Querying TSQL2 Databases with Temporal Logic
EDBT '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
Back and Forth Through Time and Events
ICTL '94 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Temporal Logic
Time is Just Another Attribute - Or At Least, Just Another Dimension
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases: Recent Advances in Temporal Databases
Experience Using TSQL2 in a Natural Language Interface
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases: Recent Advances in Temporal Databases
Natural language access to data bases: interpreting update requests
Computational Linguistics
EACL '89 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The interpretation of tense and aspect in English
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Generating English paraphrases from formal relational calculus expressions
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Selectional restrictions in HPSG
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Natural language interpretations for heterogeneous database access
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
An algorithm for situation classification of Chinese verbs
CLPW '00 Proceedings of the second workshop on Chinese language processing: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 12
HLTKM '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management - Volume 2001
A model for processing temporal references in Chinese
TASIP '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Temporal and spatial information processing - Volume 13
The annotation of temporal information in natural language sentences
TASIP '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Temporal and spatial information processing - Volume 13
An algebraic framework for temporal attribute characteristics
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part II
Integrating all stages of information systems development by means of natural language processing
REFSQ'07 Proceedings of the 13th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
Natural language processing and the conceptual model self-organizing map
NLDB'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
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Most existing Natural Language Database Interfaces (NLDB) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic mechanisms (verb tenses, temporal adverbials, temporal subordinate clauses, etc.). The database community is becoming increasingly interested in temporal database systems, which are intended to store and manipulate in a principled manner information not only about the present, but also about the past and future. When interfacing to temporal databases, supporting temporal linguistic mechanisms becomes crucial.We present a framework for constructing Natural Language Interfaces for Temporal Databases (NLTDB), which draws on research in tense and aspect theories, temporal logics and temporal databases. The framework consists of a temporal intermediate representation language, called TOP, an HPSG grammar that maps a wide range of questions involving temporal mechanisms to appropriate TOP expressions, and a provably correct method for translating from TOP to TSQL2, TSQL2 being a recently proposed temporal extension of the SQL database language. This framework was employed to implement a prototype NLTDB.