Development and Alignment of a Domain-Specific Ontology for Question Answering

With the appearance of Semantic Web technologies, it becomes possible to develop novel, sophisticated question answering systems, where ontologies are usually used as the core knowledge component. In the EU-funded project, QALL-ME, a domain-specific ontology was developed and applied for question answering in the domain of tourism, along with the assistance of two upper ontologies for concept expansion and reasoning. This paper focuses on the development of the QALL-ME ontology in the tourism domain and its alignment with the upper ontologies

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Shiyan Ou, Viktor Pekar, Constantin Orasan, Christian Spurk, Matteo Negri
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2008, Ontology, Question Answering, Upper Ontologies