Lopez, Vanessa; Pasin, Michele and Motta, Enrico
(2005).
AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web.
In: 2nd European Semantic Web Conference, 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Greece.
Abstract
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based retrieval mechanisms used by the current search engines. AquaLog is a portable question-answering system which takes queries expressed in natural language and an ontology as input and returns answers drawn from the available semantic markup. We say that AquaLog is portable, because the configuration time required to customize the system for a particular ontology is negligible. AquaLog combines several powerful techniques in a novel way to make sense of NL queries and to map them to semantic markup. Moreover it also includes a learning component, which ensures that the performance of the system improves over time, in response to the particular community jargon used by the end users. In this paper we describe the current version of the system, in particular discussing its portability, its reasoning capabilities, and its learning mechanism.
| Item Type: |
Conference Item
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| Copyright Holders: |
2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
| ISBN: |
3-540-26124-9, 978-3-540-26124-7 |
| Funders: |
UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Dot.Kom project [IST-2001-34038] |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: |
18201 |
| Depositing User: |
Colin Smith
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| Date Deposited: |
11 Sep 2009 14:50 |
| Last Modified: |
29 Sep 2011 10:27 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18201 |
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