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The amount of spatio-temporal data is growing as is its potential in improving several fields (such as hazard characterization and human diseases). Meanwhile, several problems have risen and concern specially retrieving, storing, and interpreting spatio-temporal phenomena. In fact, there is a need today to make the exploitation of this flood of information popularized for a wide range of users. Although this is not the case since now, generally managing such data requires specific skills, especially the structured query language (SQL) expertise. To profit a wide range of users from this technology, natural language is to be exploited to bridge the gap between non-expert users and geographic data exploitation. This is the scope of the chapter. |