SEPTEMBER 1985 VOL. 8 NO. 3 a quarterly bulletin of the IEEE computer society technical committee Database Engineering Contents Letter from the Editor 1 Databases and Natural Language Processing Z. W. Pylyshyn and R. I. Kittredge 2 TEAM: An Experimental Transportable Natural Language Interface P. Martin, D.E. Appelt, 8.J. Grosz, and F. Pereira 10 A Multilingual Interface to Databases H. Lehmann, N. Ott, and M. Zoeppritz 23 Evaluation and Assessment of a Domain-Independent Natural Language Query System M. Jarke, J. Krause, Y. Vassiliou, E. Stohr, J. Turner, and N. White 34 Modelling Natural Language Data for Automatic Creation of a Database from Free-Text Input N. Sager, E.C. Chi, C. Friedman, and M.S. Lyman 45 Alternatives to the Use of Natural Language in Interfacing to Databases Z. Pylyshyn 56 Menu-Based Natural Language Interfaces to Databases C. W. Thompson 64 Calls for Papers 71 Special Issue on Natural Language and Databases