I have long worked at the boundary between AI and relational databases, in particular within cooperative query answering, explanation, information integration and natural language interfaces. I recently concluded a VR project (2015-04953) investigating semantic tractability and deduction in natural language interfaces to databases (2016-2019). I also coordinated the EU project spacebook that involved both spatial databases and speech-based interfaces (2011-2014).
Relational databases have always impressed me because they have proven their usefulness in the real world and, at the same time, are rooted in logic. And if one takes full database query languages (e.g. those performing counts and other aggregation operations), then it is not merely first-order logic, but higher-order logic. My current research focusses on using logical properties of query languages to facilitate the construction and learning of natural language interfaces to databases.
Most of my publications may be downloaded. Just click on them under "Publications" and then go to "Open Access in DiVA" in the upper right corner and you should be able to download a pdf.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing, FSMNLP 2017, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2021 : 75-79
Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2017: Demonstration session : 1-4
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2015, OpenProceedings.org, University of Konstanz, University Library 2015 : 541-544
Cohen, Mika; Minock, Michael; Oskarsson, Daniel; et al.
Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2013 : 396-399
Minock, Michael; Mollevik, Johan; Åsander, Mattias; et al.
Natural language processing and information systems: 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2009, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2010 : 192-206
Natural language processing and information systems: 15th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2010 : 177-187