QE-III: a formal approach to natural language querying
James Clifford · National Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 1983
In this paper we present an overview of QE-III, a language designed for natural-language querying of historical databases. QE-III is defined formally with a Montague Grammar, extended to provide an interpretation for questions and temporal reference. Moreover, in addition to the traditional syntactic and semantic components, a formal pragmatic interpretation for the sentences of QE-III is also defined.