Authors:
Davide Varagnolo
1
;
2
;
Dora Melo
3
;
2
and
Irene Rodrigues
1
;
2
Affiliations:
1
Department of Informatics, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
;
2
NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics, NOVA LINCS, Caparica, Portugal
;
3
Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Business School - ISCAC, Coimbra, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Discovery, Semantic Web, Archives Linked Data Semantic Representation.
Abstract:
In this paper an Ontology-based Question-Answering system for exploring the information on CIDOC-CRM ontology representing the Portuguese Archives metadata text descriptions is presented. The proposed approach transforms the natural language input question into a SPARQL query over the target knowledge base, the Portuguese Archives CIDO-CRM Population. To interpret the userś natural language questions, a pipeline with a natural language grammar, Stanza, a Discourse Representation Structure builder and the final question interpretation on a Query ontology is used. After obtaining the best representation of the user question on the Query ontology, the query constraints classes and properties are translated to CIDOC-CRM ontology and a SPARQL query is generated. The matching of the questions DRS on the query ontology is done as a constraint satisfaction problem and the choice of the best interpretation (matching) is obtained by solving a multi-objective optimizer.