Evaluating question answering over linked data

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-13

  Lopez, Vanessa ^a   Unger, Christina ^b   Cimiano, Philipp ^b   Motta, Enrico ^c  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (Ireland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Linked data; Natural language; Question answering; Semantic; Web

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; LINKED DATUM; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUESTION ANSWERING; WEB;

DATA HANDLING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 84884292481     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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