14. The computer system of claim 13 wherein the computer processor means for generating continually updates the plain-text description during user construction of the query.
13. A computer system for graphical specification of inquiries, comprising: computer input means for posing an inquiry within context of a given model by receiving user input graphically specifying a query in a graphical user interface, the query monitoring streaming data, and the model graphically modeling entities and information including details of the inquiry; computer processor means for utilizing an ontology and a natural language template respective to type of inquiry in the model, the computer processor means generating a plain-text description of the query as translated from user graphical specification of the query during user construction of the query and before execution of the query, the generated plain-text description being in natural language form and being different from the user graphical specification of the query; and in the graphical user interface, computer output means for displaying the generated plain-text description during user construction of the query through the graphical user interface and outside of query execution.