Work Out the Semantic Web Search: The Cooperative Way. (2nd August 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Melo, Dora; Rodrigues, Irene Pimenta; Nogueira, Vitor Beires
• Other Names: Stanojević Mladen Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in artificial intelligence. Volume 2012(2012)
• Publication Date: 2012-08-02
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 006.3
• DOI: 10.1155/2012/867831
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-7470

Abstract

Abstract : We propose a Cooperative Question Answering System that takes as input natural language queries and is able to return a cooperative answer based on semantic web resources, more specifically DBpedia represented in OWL/RDF as knowledge base and WordNet 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. The system is able to clarify the problems of ambiguity and helps finding the path to the correct answer. 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 clarified answer to the user.