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This paper describes a method and a system ONTOQUERY for content-based querying of texts based on the availability of an ontology for the concepts in the text domain. A key principle in the system is the extraction of conceptual content of noun phrases into descriptors forming an integral part of the ontology.
The retrieval of text passages rests on matching descriptors from the text against descriptors from the noun phrases in the query. The match need not be exact but is mediated by the ontology, invoking in particular taxonomic reasoning with sub- and super concepts. The paper also reports on a prototype implementation of the system.
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Andreasen, T., Anker Jensen, P., Fischer Nilsson, J., Paggio, P., Sandford Pedersen, B., Erdman Thomsen, H. (2002). Ontological Extraction of Content for Text Querying. In: Andersson, B., Bergholtz, M., Johannesson, P. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2553. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36271-1_11
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