PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web

Vanessa Lopez; Enrico Motta; Victoria S. Uren

doi:10.1007/11762256_30

PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web

Vanessa Lopez
, Enrico Motta
, Victoria S. Uren

Operations and Service Management

Open University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

65 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a large scale opens the way to QA systems which can make use of such semantic information to provide precise, formally derived answers to questions. At the same time the distributed, heterogeneous, large-scale nature of the semantic information introduces significant challenges. In this paper we describe the design of a QA system, PowerAqua, designed to exploit semantic markup on the web to provide answers to questions posed in natural language. PowerAqua does not assume that the user has any prior information about the semantic resources. The system takes as input a natural language query, translates it into a set of logical queries, which are then answered by consulting and aggregating information derived from multiple heterogeneous semantic sources.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The semantic web : research and applications
Subtitle of host publication	3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006 Proceedings
Editors	York Sure, John Domingue
Place of Publication	Berlin (DE)
Publisher	Springer
Pages	393-410
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-540-34545-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-34544-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11762256_30
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	3rd European Semantic Web Conference - Budva, Montenegro Duration: 11 Jun 2006 → 14 Jun 2006

Publication series

Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	4011
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	3rd European Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated title	ESWC 2006
Country/Territory	Montenegro
City	Budva
Period	11/06/06 → 14/06/06

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Lopez, V, Motta, E & Uren, VS 2006, PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web. in Y Sure & J Domingue (eds), The semantic web : research and applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006 Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 4011, Springer, Berlin (DE), pp. 393-410, 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, Budva, Montenegro, 11/06/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/11762256_30

PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web. / Lopez, Vanessa; Motta, Enrico; Uren, Victoria S.
The semantic web : research and applications: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006 Proceedings. ed. / York Sure; John Domingue. Berlin (DE): Springer, 2006. p. 393-410 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 4011).

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PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web

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An infrastructure for acquiring high quality semantic metadata

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An infrastructure for acquiring high quality semantic metadata

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