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As an increasing amount of RDF data is published as Linked Data, intuitive ways of accessing this data become more and more important. Natural language question answering approaches have been proposed as a good compromise between intuitiveness and expressiveness. We present a user interface for the template based question answering system which covers the full question answering pipeline and answers factual questions with a list of RDF resources. Users can ask full-sentence, English factual questions and get a list of resources which are then visualized using those properties which are expected to carry the most important information for the user. The available knowledge bases are (1) DBpedia for general domain question answering and (2) Oxford real estate for housing searches. However, the system is easily extensible to other knowledge bases.
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Höffner, K. et al. (2013). User Interface for a Template Based Question Answering System. In: Klinov, P., Mouromtsev, D. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web. KESW 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41360-5_21
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