AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System

نویسندگان

  • Maria Vargas-Vera
  • Enrico Motta
  • John Domingue
چکیده

The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answering systems. These kind of systems should allow users to ask questions in everyday language and receive an answer quickly and with a context which allows the user to validate the answer. Current search engines can return ranked list of documents but they do not deliver answers to users.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003