Towards an open question answering architecture

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Authors

  • Edgard Marx
  • Ricardo Usbeck
  • Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
  • Konrad Höffner
  • Jens Lehmann
  • Sören Auer

Billions of facts pertaining to a multitude of domains are now available on the Web as RDF data. However, accessing this data is still a difficult endeavour for non-expert users. In order to meliorate the access to this data, approaches imposing minimal hurdles to their users are required. Although many question answering systems over Linked Data have being proposed, retrieving the desired data is still significantly challenging. In addition, developing and evaluating question answering systems remains a very complex task. To overcome these obstacles, we present a modular and extensible open-source question answering framework. We demonstrate how the framework can be used by integrating two state-of-the-art question answering systems. As a result our evaluation shows that overall better results can be achieved by the use of combination rather than individual stand-alone versions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSEMANTiCS 2014 : Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems
EditorsHarald Sack, Agata Filipowska, Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Hellmann
Number of pages4
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Publication date04.09.2014
Pages57-60
ISBN (Print)9781450329279
ISBN (Electronic)9781450329804
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 04.09.2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2014 - Leipzig, Germany
Duration: 04.09.201405.09.2014
Conference number: 10
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2660517

Bibliographical note

European Science Foundation: GA No. 318159

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

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