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  <Title>Querying Temporal Databases Using Controlled Natural Language*</Title>
  <Section position="3" start_page="1076" end_page="1076" type="intro">
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2 Related work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> There is voluminous litera.ture on the design of Nil, interfaces to general (non-tenq)oral) databa.ses (see (lYrrault and Grosz, \]988; Col)estake and Jones, 1990; Androutsopoulos et al, 1995) for surveys) and by now their main a,:lva.ntages and disadvantages are well understood. Much less work has been devoted to the design of Nil, interfa.ces to TDBs (C'lifford, 1990; Hinrichs, 1988) or other computer syst(.'nls involving a temporal dimension (Crouch and l)ulnm.n, 71993). ()f lYa, rticular relevance is (Androutsopoulos, 1996), who presents a linguistically motivated translation method fi'om NL queries into TSQL2 using a.n ltl)SG (Polla, rd and Sag, 1.994) grammar and a TL as an intermediate representation language. Our al)1)l:oach shares many characte.ristics with (And routsopoulos, 1996), but there also important difl'erences, which we point out throughout the paper.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> \Y=e I)egin our presentation of the. translation method with a brief overview of the T\])I}, as its structure determines many of the deign choices ta.lw.n in devising the translation method.</Paragraph>
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