A Lexicon Design for Ontology-based Question Answering

Ibrahim Soumana, Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield

2013

Abstract

Data volume growth leads to new challenges for Natural Language Interfaces (NLI). With Big Data for example, NLI must not only be portable from one domain to another, but be operational simultaneously in several domains. The lexicon is an important resource that improves the system performance. In this paper, we propose an approach to design a lexicon centered on RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple. We argue that a triple centric lexicon is reusable. The lexicon is also extended to include operations and possible functions in which data can be involved. This allows increasing the complexity of questions a NLI can process.

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Soumana I., Cardey S. and Greenfield P. (2013). A Lexicon Design for Ontology-based Question Answering . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-81-5, pages 170-175. DOI: 10.5220/0004540501700175


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@conference{keod13,
author={Ibrahim Soumana and Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield},
title={A Lexicon Design for Ontology-based Question Answering},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={170-175},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004540501700175},
isbn={978-989-8565-81-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)
TI - A Lexicon Design for Ontology-based Question Answering
SN - 978-989-8565-81-5
AU - Soumana I.
AU - Cardey S.
AU - Greenfield P.
PY - 2013
SP - 170
EP - 175
DO - 10.5220/0004540501700175