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| Title | Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web |
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| Authors | Peter Adolphs, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Hans Uszkoreit and Feiyu Xu |
| Abstract | After several years of development, the vision of the Semantic Web is graduallybecoming reality. Large data repositories have been created and offer semanticinformation in a machine-processable form for various domains. Semantic Webdata can be published on the Web, gathered automatically, and reasoned about.All these developments open interesting perspectives for building a new classof domain-specific, broad-coverage information systems that overcome along-standing bottleneck of AI systems, the notoriously incomplete knowledgebase. We present a system that shows how the wealth of information in theSemantic Web can be interfaced with humans once again, using natural languagefor querying and answering rather than technical formalisms. Whereas currentQuestion Answering systems typically select snippets from Web documentsretrieved by a search engine, we utilize Semantic Web data, which allows us toprovide natural-language answers that are tailored to the current dialogcontext. Furthermore, we show how to use natural language processingtechnologies to acquire new data and enrich existing data in a Semantic Webframework. Our system has acquired a rich biographic data resource by combiningexisting Semantic Web resources, which are discovered from semi-structuredtextual data in Web pages, with information extracted from free naturallanguage texts. |
| Language | Question Answering |
| Topics | Semantic Web, Acquisition, Question Answering |
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Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ADOLPHS10.611, author = {Peter Adolphs, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Hans Uszkoreit and Feiyu Xu}, title = {Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |