SWSNL: Semantic web search using natural language

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3649-3664

  Habernal, Ivan ^a   Konopík, Miloslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Natural Language Understanding; Semantic search; Semantic Web; Statistical semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

CZECH LANGUAGE; FACEBOOK; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC SEARCH; SEMANTIC WEB SEARCH; SPARQL QUERIES; WEB DATA; WRITTEN TEXTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874666890     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.070     Document Type: Article

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