CubeQA—question answering on RDF data cubes

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Statistical data in the form of RDF Data Cubes is becoming increasingly valuable as it influences decisions in areas such as health care, policy and finance. While a growing amount is becoming freely available through the open data movement, this data is opaque to laypersons. Semantic Question Answering (SQA) technologies provide intuitive access via free-form natural language queries but general SQA systems cannot process RDF Data Cubes. On the intersection between RDF Data Cubes and SQA, we create a new subfield of SQA, called RDCQA. We create an RDQCA benchmark as task 3 of the QALD-6 evaluation challenge, to stimulate further research and enable quantitative comparison between RDCQA systems. We design and evaluate the domain independent CubeQA algorithm, which is the first RDCQA system and achieves a global F1 score of 0.43 on the QALD6T3-test benchmark, showing that RDCQA is feasible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2016 : 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
EditorsPaul Groth, Elena Simperl, Alasdair Gray, Marta Sabou, Markus Krotzsch, Freddy Lecue, Freddy Lecue, Fabian Flock, Yolanda Gil
Number of pages16
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Wien
Publication date01.01.2016
Pages325-340
ISBN (print)978-3-319-46522-7
ISBN (electronic)978-3-319-46523-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2016
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016 - Kobe, Japan
Duration: 17.10.201621.10.2016
Conference number: 15
https://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/

Bibliographical note

This work was supported by a grant from the EU H2020 Framework Programme provided for the project HOBBIT (GA no. 688227).

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