COOPERATIVE QUESTION ANSWERING FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB

Dora Melo, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, Vitor Beires Nogueira

2011

Abstract

In this paper we propose a Cooperative Question Answering System that takes as input queries expressed in natural language and is able to return a cooperative answer obtained from resources in the Semantic Web, more specifically DBpedia databases represented in OWL/RDF. Moreover, when the DBpedia provides no answer, we use the WordNet in order to build similar questions. Our system resorts to ontologies not only for reasoning but also to find answers and is independent of prior knowledge of the semantic resources by the user. The natural language question is translated into its semantic representation and then answered by consulting the semantics sources of information. If there are multiple answers to the question posed (or to the similar questions for which DBpedia contains answers), they will be grouped according to their semantic meaning, providing a more cooperative and clean answer to the user.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Melo D., Pimenta Rodrigues I. and Beires Nogueira V. (2011). COOPERATIVE QUESTION ANSWERING FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-81-2, pages 258-263. DOI: 10.5220/0003691202580263

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis11,
author={Dora Melo and Irene Pimenta Rodrigues and Vitor Beires Nogueira},
title={COOPERATIVE QUESTION ANSWERING FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={258-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003691202580263},
isbn={978-989-8425-81-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)
TI - COOPERATIVE QUESTION ANSWERING FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB
SN - 978-989-8425-81-2
AU - Melo D.
AU - Pimenta Rodrigues I.
AU - Beires Nogueira V.
PY - 2011
SP - 258
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0003691202580263