TY - BOOK ID - 1364216 TI - Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces PY - 2002 SN - 9027249903 1588112691 9786612161933 1282161938 9027297479 9789027297471 9781588112699 9789027249906 PB - Philadelphia, PA, USA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Grammar KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Temporal constructions KW - Data processing. KW - Verb KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics / General KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language and languages KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Multilingual computing KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Data processing KW - Grammar, Comparative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1364216 AB - Advances in temporal databases make it increasingly easier to store time-dependent information, creating a need for facilities that will help end-users access this information. In the context of natural language interaction, significant effort has been devoted to interfaces that allow database queries to be formulated in natural language. Most of the existing interfaces, however, do not support adequately the notion of time. Drawing upon tense and aspect theories, temporal logics, and temporal databases, this cross-discipline book examines relevant issues from the three areas, developing a unified theoretical framework that can be used to build natural language interfaces to temporal databases. The framework features an HPSG mapping from English to a formally defined meaning representation language, and a corresponding mapping to a temporal extension of the SQL database language. The book is accompanied by a freely available prototype interface, built according to the framework, and implemented using Prolog and ALE. This is the first in-depth exploration of the notion of time in natural language database interfaces. It will be particularly interesting to researchers working on natural language interaction, tense and aspect, HPSG, temporal logics, and temporal databases, especially those who wish to learn about time-related issues in other disciplines. ER -