Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
Portability of syntax and semantics in DATALOG
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Using a natural language interface with casual users
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Why looking isn't always seeing: readership skills and graphical programming
Communications of the ACM
Are visual query languages easier to use than traditional ones?: an experimental proof
HCI '95 Proceedings of the HCI'95 conference on People and computers X
Designing a Portable Natural Language Database Query System
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Controlled natural language interfaces (extended abstract): the best of three worlds
CSC '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM thirteenth annual conference on Computer Science
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
An Exploratory Study of Ad Hoc Query Languages to Databases
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Data Engineering
Usable natural language interfaces through menu-based natural language understanding
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Query Formulation from High-Level Concepts for Relational Databases
UIDIS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems
Effects of conceptual data modeling formalisms on user validation and analyst modeling of information requirements
Problems in natural-language interface to DBMS with examples from EUFID
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Multilingual authoring using feedback texts
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
MASQUE/SQL: an efficient and portable natural language query interface for relational databases
IEA/AIE'93 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems
A question/answer typology with surface text patterns
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
Natural language processing in clime, a multilingual legal advisory system†
Natural Language Engineering
Learning to transform natural to formal languages
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
Generic querying of relational databases using natural language generation techniques
INLG '06 Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System
NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Cross ontology query answering on the semantic web: an initial evaluation
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
ENLG '07 Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Towards a generation-based semantic web authoring tool
ENLG '09 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Evaluating an ontology-driven WYSIWYM interface
INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
An evaluation framework for controlled natural languages
CNL'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Controlled natural language
Accelerating instant question search with database techniques
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Generating numerical approximations
Computational Linguistics
The pragmatic web: addressing complex communication in public administration using tailored delivery
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Evaluating a query framework for software evolution data
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Evaluating question answering over linked data
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Generating natural language descriptions from OWL ontologies: the natural OWL system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
The understandability of OWL statements in controlled English
Semantic Web - Linked Data for science and education
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This article describes a method for composing fluent and complex natural language questions, while avoiding the standard pitfalls of free text queries. The method, based on Conceptual Authoring, is targeted at question-answering systems where reliability and transparency are critical, and where users cannot be expected to undergo extensive training in question composition. This scenario is found in most corporate domains, especially in applications that are risk-averse. We present a proof-of-concept system we have developed: a question-answering interface to a large repository of medical histories in the area of cancer. We show that the method allows users to successfully and reliably compose complex queries with minimal training.