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In this paper we present ORAKEL, a natural language interface which translates wh-questions into logical queries and evaluates them with respect to a given knowledge base. For this purpose, ORAKEL makes use of a compositional approach in order to construct the semantics of a wh-question. The system is in principle able to deal with arbitrary logical languages and knowledge representation paradigms, i.e. relational models, frame-based models, etc. However, in this paper we present a concrete implementation based on F-Logic and Ontobroker as underlying inference engine.
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Cimiano, P. (2004). ORAKEL: A Natural Language Interface to an F-Logic Knowledge Base. In: Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27779-8_38
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