  Previous work in the context of natural language querying of temporal
databases has established a method to map automatically from a large subset of
English time-related questions to suitable expressions of a temporal logic-like
language, called TOP. An algorithm to translate from TOP to the TSQL2 temporal
database language has also been defined. This paper shows how TOP expressions
could be translated into a simpler logic-like language, called BOT. BOT is very
close to traditional first-order predicate logic (FOPL), and hence existing
methods to manipulate FOPL expressions can be exploited to interface to
time-sensitive applications other than TSQL2 databases, maintaining the
existing English-to-TOP mapping.
