Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering

Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the Web into a “virtual database” and to access it through natural language. We built Omnibase, a system that integrates heterogeneous data sources using an object– property–value model. With the help of Omnibase, our Start natural language system can now access numerous heterogeneous data sources on the Web in a uniform manner, and answers millions of user questions with high precision.