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We present a system for Question Answering which computes a prospective answer from Logical Forms produced by a full-fledged NLP for text understanding, and then maps the result onto schemata in SPARQL to be used for accessing the Semantic Web. As an intermediate step, and whenever there are complex concepts to be mapped, the system looks for a corresponding amalgam in YAGO classes. It is just by the internal structure of the Logical Form that we are able to produce a suitable and meaningful context for concept disambiguation. Logical Forms are the final output of a complex system for text understanding - GETARUNS - which can deal with different levels of syntactic and semantic ambiguity in the generation of a final structure, by accessing computational lexical equipped with sub-categorization frames and appropriate selectional restrictions applied to the attachment of complements and adjuncts. The system also produces pronominal binding and instantiates the implicit arguments, if needed, in order to complete the required Predicate Argument structure which is licensed by the semantic component.
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Tripodi, R., Delmonte, R. (2013). From Logical Forms to SPARQL Query with GETARUNS. In: Lai, C., Semeraro, G., Vargiu, E. (eds) New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31546-6_11
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