Addressing ontology-based question answering with collections of user queries

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-188

  Ferrández, Óscar ^a   Izquierdo, Rubén ^a   Ferrández, Sergio ^a   Vicedo, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Natural language interfaces; Ontology modelling; Question answering; Textual entailment

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS;

FORMAL KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; INTER DOMAINS; MULTILINGUAL CAPABILITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY MODELLING; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PERFORMANCE LEVELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEMS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SPANISH LANGUAGES; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; USER INFORMATIONS; USER QUERIES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 60249099234     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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