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Ontology-Based Question Answering in a Federation of University Sites: The MOSES Case Study

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB 2004)

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This paper deals with a new approach to ontology-based QA in which users ask questions in natural language to knowledge bases of facts extracted from a federation of Web sites and organised in topic map repositories. Our approach is being investigated in the context of the EU project MOSES.

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Atzeni, P. et al. (2004). Ontology-Based Question Answering in a Federation of University Sites: The MOSES Case Study. In: Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27779-8_40

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