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This paper describes how a domain ontology has been used in practical system of query interpretation. It presents a general methodology for building a semantic and language-independent representation of the meaning of the query on the basis of the contents of the ontology. The basic idea is to look for paths on the ontology connecting concepts related to words appearing in the NL query. The final result is what has been called Ontological Query, i.e. a semantic description of the user’s target. Since the domain is restricted, the problem of semantic ambiguity is not as relevant as in unrestricted applications, but some hints about how to obtain unambiguous representation will be given.
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Lesmo, L., Robaldo, L. (2007). Use of Ontologies in Practical NL Query Interpretation. In: Basili, R., Pazienza, M.T. (eds) AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing. AI*IA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74782-6_17
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