AQUA - Ontology-based question answering system

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2972, Issue , 2004, Pages 468-477

  Vargas Vera, Maria ^a   Motta, Enrico ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORMAL LOGIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TEXT PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

INFLATION RATE; ONTOLOGIES; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; REASONING PROCESS; SIMILARITY ALGORITHM; UNIFORM FRAMEWORK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY;

EID: 9444289888     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24694-7_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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