Section: New Software and Platforms

Qakis

Question-Answering wiki framework based system

Keyword: Natural language

Functional Description: The QAKiS system implements question answering over DBpedia. QAKiS allows end users to submit a query to an RDF triple store in English and to obtain the answer in the same language, hiding the complexity of the non-intuitive formal query languages involved in the resolution process. At the same time, the expressiveness of these standards is exploited to scale to the huge amounts of available semantic data. Its major novelty is to implement a relation-based match for question interpretation, to convert the user question into a query language (e.g. SPARQL). English, French and German DBpedia chapters are the RDF data sets to be queried using a natural language interface.

• Participants: Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Amine Hallili, Elena Cabrio, Fabien Gandon, Julien Cojan and Serena Villata

• Contact: Elena Cabrio

• URL: http://www.qakis.org/