40. The system of claim 38 wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to use the at least one natural translation object to translate a natural language question corresponding to the query by generation of at least one sub-string from a string of text corresponding to the natural language question, and selection of at least one of a plurality of query template components corresponding to the at least one sub-string.
40. The system of claim 38 wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to use the at least one natural translation object to translate a natural language question corresponding to the query by generation of at least one sub-string from a string of text corresponding to the natural language question, and selection of at least one of a plurality of query template components corresponding to the at least one sub-string. 42. The system of claim 40 wherein the one or more computing devices are further configured to use the at least one natural translation object to translate the natural language question by generation of a query template including the plurality of query template components by designation of a plurality of predefined text sub-strings and a plurality of variables to which the predefined text sub-strings correspond, and by definition of a query generator with respect to the variables, the query generator being operable to generate the query from selected ones of the predefined text sub-strings substituted for the corresponding variables.