Title :
Towards Ontology-Based Question Answering in Vague Domains
Author :
Alexopoulos, Panos ; Walker, A. ; Gomez-Perez, Jose Manuel ; Wallace, Margeaux
Author_Institution :
iSOCO S.A., Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The rapid growth of the Semantic Web in the last years has led to the emergence of Ontology-Based Question Answering systems, namely systems that exploit the ontological structure of data in order to interpret and answer natural language questions. In this paper, we are interested in question answering scenarios where both semantic data and user questions can be characterized by vagueness and we propose a novel framework that is able to handle this vagueness by means of fuzzy ontologies.
Keywords :
data structures; fuzzy reasoning; ontologies (artificial intelligence); question answering (information retrieval); fuzzy ontologies; natural language question answering; natural language question interpretation; ontological data structure; ontology-based question answering systems; semantic Web; semantic data; user questions; vague domains; Context; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge discovery; Natural languages; Ontologies; Pipelines; Semantics; Fuzzy Ontologies; Question Answering; Vagueness;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2014 9th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6813-8
DOI :
10.1109/SMAP.2014.33
