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Ontology-Based Application Server to the Execution of Imperative Natural Language Requests

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2006)

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This paper is about using ontologies to help the execution of imperative requests expressed in natural language. In order to achieve this goal, we developed the prototype of an Ontology-Based Application Server to the execution of Natural Language requests (NL-OBAS). The NL-OBAS provides services to allow users to describe requests in several natural languages and uses software components to execute them. One of the advantages of our approach is that natural language is first converted to an interlingua, UNL (Universal Networking Language). The interlingua allows the use of different human languages to express the requests (other systems are restricted to English). The semantics of the interlingua, enhanced by ontologies, is used to retrieve the appropriated software components to compose a dynamic service to execute the requests expressed in natural language.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Science Computing – ICMC, University of São Paulo, P.O. Box 688, São Carlos, Brazil

    Flávia Linhalis & Dilvan de Abreu Moreira

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  1. The European Center for Counterterrorism Research and Studies Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. DISCO, University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Gabriella Pasi

  3. Computer Science Department, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo

  4. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  5. Research group PLIS: Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Linhalis, F., de Abreu Moreira, D. (2006). Ontology-Based Application Server to the Execution of Imperative Natural Language Requests. In: Larsen, H.L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_50

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