AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets

Web Semantics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 72-105

  Lopez, Vanessa ^a   Uren, Victoria ^a   Motta, Enrico ^a   Pasin, Michele ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Natural language; Ontologies; Question answering; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTRANETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY-BASED RELATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; USER QUERIES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 34249808175     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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