Lightweight integration and natural language querying of heterogeneous data services

Issue title: Natural language processing in the web era

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Quarteroni, Silvia

Affiliations: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. E.mail: quarteroni@elet.polimi.it

Abstract: Natural language interfaces to Web data services are emerging as an enabling technology to grant non-expert users the ability to access huge data repositories. However, meeting the goal of natural interaction involves solving the complex problem of recognizing a relevant service or service composition given a potentially ambiguous and ungrammatical natural language question. In this paper, we discuss the requirements of natural language processing over data services and describe a lightweight process to for the semantic annotation of services. We then illustrate and evaluate a process to support natural language queries over a composition of services annotated according to the above process.

Keywords: Natural language processing, data services

DOI: 10.3233/IA-120037

Journal: Intelligenza Artificiale, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 149-162, 2012