Query response using mapping to parameterized report

A method for responding to a natural language query, the method comprising:

• an act of accessing a natural language query;
• an act of apply computerized linguistic parsing to the natural language query to generate a set of one or more language elements;
• an act of mapping at least some of the one or more natural language elements to at least one of a plurality of parameters and/or data elements of a parameterized report, the parameterized report being structure to use a dataset to construct structured data having the plurality of parameters and/or data elements;
• based on the mapping, an act of selecting the parameterized report for use in responding to the natural language query;
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• an act using the parameterized report to generated structured data that responds to the natural language query.

A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, the computing system is configured to instantiate and/or operate the following:

• a natural language processing engine configured to apply a linguistic parsing to natural language queries to generate corresponding sets of one or more language elements;
• a mapping component that maps at least some of the sets of one or more language elements to at least some of a plurality of parameters and/or data elements of one or more of a plurality of parameterized report, each parameterized report being structured to constructed structured data based on at least a particular dataset;
• a report selection component that determines, for each of at least some natural language queries and based on the mapping of the mapping component, which one or more of the plurality of parameterized reports to use to respond to the natural language query;
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• a structuring component that uses at least a parameterized report selected by the report selection component to generate structured data to respond to the natural language query.