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
• Earlier Teaching

Research

I focus 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.

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.


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


• 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. "A Progress Report on the Natural Language Interface STEP", in the proceedings of the Swedish AI Society (SAIS-05), Vasteras, Sweden, April 2005.


• Minock, M. "Managing Database Incompleteness with the Guarded Fragment", Workshop on Guarded Logics, European Summer School in Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI-04), Nancy, France, August 2004: 27-45


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


• 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


• Minock, M. "Constructing and Refining Operationalized Ontologies within Explanation-Capable Agents", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) Workshop on Ontology Learning, Seattle, USA. Aug 2001.


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


• 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.