Re: [ontolog-forum] natural language end-point to knowledge base (aka on

[Enrico Motta <e.motta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 20:32 +0300 26/3/10, Alex Shkotin wrote:

> Thank you Enrico,
>
> terrific!
>
> now I have 3 end-points:-)
>
> And I'd like to post first note:
>
> A structure of answer at Attempto/RACE and PowerAqua is oriented on
> KB-engineer, not end user.
> It is I hope small deal (for programmer) but very important (for
> user).

You are absolutely correct. Currently the focus is on scaling up to the very large amounts of data that exist on the SW and on achieving a good degree of precision and recall. As a result, the current interface is primarily for people exploring the technology. However we are working on a new interface to ensure a much more user-friendly interaction.

Watch this space!

Enrico

> A structure of answer at http://www.reengineeringllc.com/ is a table - I think it's OK for
> end user.
>
> Alex
> 2010/3/26 Enrico Motta <e.motta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Alex
> >
> > you may want to have a look at PowerAqua, http://technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk/poweraqua/. It provides a
> > natural language front end to a 'Semantic Web', which means it can be
> > used with back end repositorites which can be heterogeneous in nature,
> > such as the set of ontologies and RDF resources crawled by Watson, http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/. In other words, PowerAqua does not require any kb-specific
> > customization to work, it uses WordNet and the SW itself as sources of
> > background knowledge, to try and map NL queries to statements in a
> > (possibly heterogeneous) back end repository.
> >
> > The demo page, http://technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk/poweraqua/demo.html, contains
> > two instances of the system, which you can try out.
> >
> > Good Luck!
> >
> > Enrico
> >
> > PS Please note that, depending on the query, you may have
> > to wait a while for an answer!
> >
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > while OWL-community is developing SPARQL as a language for
> > > TBL-agents
> > > are there any natural language end-point to knowledge base
> > > available?
> > > specifically:
> > > - web-based end-point;
> > > - and returning a knowledge (a set of sentences for further
> > > development).
> > > I do know only one: http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/race/
> > >
> > > I did not find one to http://www.opencyc.org/:(
> > >
> > > Please tell me more,
> > >
> > > Alex
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