Natural language interfaces to ontologies: Combining syntactic analysis and ontology-based lookup through the user interaction

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

Volumn 6088 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 106-120

  Damljanovic, Danica ^a   Agatonovic, Milan ^a   Cunningham, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clarification dialogs; learning; Natural language interfaces; ontologies; question answering

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMISATION; DATA SETS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; HIGH PRECISION; LARGE DATASETS; LEARNING; LOOKUPS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; QUESTION ANSWERING; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC PARSING; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; USER INTERACTION;

CLARIFIERS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77954390899     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13486-9_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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