Programming in Prolog (2nd ed.)
Programming in Prolog (2nd ed.)
A natural language front end to databases with evaluative feedback
Proc. of the ICOD-2 workshop on New applications of data bases
Paraphrasing using given and new information in a question-answer system
ACL '79 Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Response generation in question answering systems
ACL '79 Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An introduction to database systems (The Systems programming series)
An introduction to database systems (The Systems programming series)
Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces
Natural Language Engineering
Generating sentences from different perspectives
EACL '91 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Expressing quantifier scope in French generation
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Hinting by paraphrasing in an instruction system
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
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This paper discusses a system for producing English descriptions (or "paraphrases") of the content of formal relational calculus (RC) formulae expressing a database (DB) query. It explains the underlying design motivations and describes a conceptual model and focus selection mechanism necessary for delivering coherent paraphrases. The general paraphrasing strategy is discussed, as are the notions of "desirable" paraphrase and "paraphrasable query". Two examples are included. The system was developed and implemented in Prolog at the University of Essex under a grant from ICL.