Temporal Meaning Representations in a Natural Language Front-End
<|reference_start|>Temporal Meaning Representations in a Natural Language Front-End: Previous work in the context of natural language querying of temporal databases has established a method to map automatically from a large subset of English time-related questions to suitable expressions of a temporal logic-like language, called TOP. An algorithm to translate from TOP to the TSQL2 temporal database language has also been defined. This paper shows how TOP expressions could be translated into a simpler logic-like language, called BOT. BOT is very close to traditional first-order predicate logic (FOPL), and hence existing methods to manipulate FOPL expressions can be exploited to interface to time-sensitive applications other than TSQL2 databases, maintaining the existing English-to-TOP mapping.<|reference_end|>
@article{androutsopoulos1999temporal,
    title={Temporal Meaning Representations in a Natural Language Front-End},
    author={I. Androutsopoulos (Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab, Institute of
  Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Greece)},
    journal={In Gergatsoulis, M. and Rondogiannis, P. (Eds.), Intensional
  Programming II (Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Languages
  for Intensional Programming, Athens, Greece, 1999), pp. 197-213, World
  Scientific, 2000.},
    year={1999},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/9906020},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}