AquaLog

AquaLog, a portable question-answering system for organizational ontologies

AquaLog is a portable question-answering system which takes queries expressed in natural language and an ontology as input and returns answers drawn from semantic resources compliant with the input ontology. AquaLog differs from other similar systems with respect to two important aspects: 1) It is truly portable: no configuration effort is needed at all, to interface AquaLog to a particular ontology; 2) Over time it adapts to the jargon used by a particular user community, hence there is no...

Lopez, V., Uren, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2011) Is Question Answering fit for the Semantic Web? A Survey, Journal of Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, In Press

Uren, V., Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Liu, H., Motta, E. and Giordanino, M. (2007) The usability of semantic search tools: a review, Knowledge Engineering Review, 22, 4, pp. 361-377

Lopez, V., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2007) AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets, Journal of Web Semantics, 5, 2, pp. 72-105, Elsevier

Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2007) An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals, Journal of Web Engineering, 2007, 6, 4

Lopez, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2006) PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly, International Semantic Web Conference., Georgia, Atlanta

Lei, Y., Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata, the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro

Lei, Y., Lopez, V. and Motta, E. (2006) An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals, Workshop: International Workshop on Web Information System Modeling (WISM 2006), Luxembourg

Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006) AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web, HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, New York

Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2005) AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web, European Semantic Web Conference 2005, Heraklion, Crete

Lopez, V. and Motta, E. (2005) PowerAqua: An Ontology Question Answering System for the Semantic Web, Workshop: Ontologias y Web Semantiica 2005. Held in conjunction with CAEPIA 2005, Spain