Users without knowledge of schemas or query languages have difficulties in accessing information stored in databases. Commercial
and research efforts have focused on keyword-based searches. Among them, précis queries generate entire multi-relation databases,
which are logical subsets of existing ones, instead of individual relations. The logical database subset contains not only
items directly related to the query selections but also items implicitly related to them in various ways. Earlier work has
identified the need of providing the naïve user with meaningful answers to his questions and has suggested the translation
of précis query answer in narrative form. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method that translates the relational
output of a précis query into a synthesis of results. We describe a translator engine that uses a template mechanism for generating
a précis in a narrative form through a set of reusable templates.