Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-276

  Androutsopoulos, Ion ^a   Ritchie, Graeme ^b   Thanisch, Peter ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84937179719     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324998001971     Document Type: Article

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