Michael Minock

Position: Senior universitetslektor (roughly equivalent to Associate Professor) Email: mjm (på) cs.umu.se Office: C445 MIT-huset, Umeå University, Umeå 90187, Sweden Direct telephone: +46 90 786 6398 Department fax: +46 90 786 6126 Bookmarks

Current Teaching

• Artificiell Intelligens (Artificial Intelligence) 5DV019
• Artificiell Intelligent Beteende (Behavior-based Artificial Intelligence) 5DV084
• Exjobb (Masters Theses)
• Earlier Teaching

Research

My focus is on natural language interfaces (NLIs) to databases. Such systems confront many fundamental challenges that, if overcome, would lead to wide practical benefit. Additional interests of mine include spatial-temporal databases, machine learning and mobile computing. See current and proposed exjobb projects for more insight into my current activities.

Software

• C-Phrase : A system for supporting natural language interfaces to relational databases

Journal Articles

• Michael Minock, " Describing and deriving certain answers over partial databases", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Springer Verlag, 2009. link


• Michael Minock, "C-Phrase: A System for Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases", Journal of Data Engineering (DKE), Elsevier, 2009. link


• Michael Minock, "Modular Generation of Relational Query Paraphrases", Research on Language and Computation: Formal Issues in Natural Language Generation, 4(1):9-37, Springer Verlag, 2006. link


• Michael Minock and Wesley Chu, "Explanation Over Inference Hierarchies in Active Mediation Applications." Applied Intelligence 13(2): 101-112, Springer Verlag, 2000. link


• Wesley Chu, Hua Yang, Kuorong Chiang, Michael Minock, Gladys Chow and Chris Larson, "CoBase: A Scalable and Extensible Cooperative Information System", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems(JIIS) 6(2/3): 223-259, Springer Verlag, 1996. link

(Selected) Conference/Workshop Papers

• Philipp Cimiano and Michael Minock, "Natural Language Interfaces: What's the Problem? - A Data-driven Quantitative Analysis", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2009), 15 pages, Germany, June 2009. pdf


• Minock, M. Discernabilty and Preference in Interactive Option Searches. Proceedings of the Swedish AI Society. Linköping 2009. pdf


• Minock, M., Olofsson, P. and Näslund A. "Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases", in the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2008), 12 pages, London, UK, June 2008. pdf


• Minock, M. "A STEP Towards Realizing Codd's Vision of Rendezvous with the Casual User", in the proceedings 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB-2007), demonstration session, Vienna, Austria, September 2007. pdf


• Minock, M. "Natural Language Updates to Databases through Dialogue", in the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2006), pages 203-208, Klagenfurt, Austria, June 2006. pdf


• Minock, M. "Where are the 'Killer Applications' of Restricted Domain Question Answering?", in proceedings of Knowledge and Reasoning in Question Answering (KRAQ-2005), pages 98-101, Edinburgh, Scotland , July 2005. pdf


• Minock, M. "A Phrasal Approach to Natural Language Interfaces over Databases", in the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2005), pages 333-336, Alicante, Spain, June 2005. pdf (see also technical report pdf )


• Minock, M. "Knowledge Representation using Schema Tuple Queries", Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-03), Hamburg, Germany, September 2003: 51-62 pdf


• Minock, M. "A phrasal generator for describing relational database queries", Proc. of the 9th European Association of Computational Linguistics workshop on Natural Language Generation, Budapest, Hungary, Apr 2003. pdf


• Minock, M. and Kraus, H. "Zlog: Applying System-Z" , Logics in Artificial Intelligence, European Conference (JELIA-02) Systems Session, Cosenza, Italy, Sep 2002: 545-548 pdf (see also technical report pdf )


• M. Minock, M. Rusinkiewicz, B. Perry, "The Identification of Missing Information Resources through the Query Difference Operator". CoopIS,1999: pdf


• M. Minock, W. Chu, "Explanation for Cooperative Information Systems." ISMIS 1996: 264-273


• M. Minock, W. Chu,"Generation, Refinement, and Extension of Explanation for Cooperative Information Systems", CIKM Workshop on Access to Information, 1995.