Ontology-driven question answering in AquaLog

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3136, Issue , 2004, Pages 89-102

  Lopez, Vanessa ^a   Motta, Enrico ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB;

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE BASIS (KBS); NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY SERVER; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC WEB VISION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 35048903195     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27779-8_8     Document Type: Article

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