Treo: Combining Entity-Search, Spreading Activation and Semantic Relatedness for Querying Linked Data. Freitas, A., Gabriel de Oliveira, J., O'Riain, S., Curry, E., & Carlos Pereira da Silva, J. In 1st Workshop on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-1), 2011.
Treo: Combining Entity-Search, Spreading Activation and Semantic Relatedness for Querying Linked Data [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper describes Treo, a natural language query mecha- nismfor Linked Data which focuses on the provision of a precise and scal- able semantic matching approach between natural language queries and distributed heterogeneous Linked Datasets. Treo’s semantic matching approach combines three key elements: entity search, a Wikipedia-based semantic relatedness measure and spreading activation search. While en- tity search allows Treo to cope with queries over high volume and dis- tributed data, the combination of entity search and spreading activation search using a Wikipedia-based semantic relatedness measure provides a flexible approach for handling the semantic match between natural language queries and Linked Data. Experimental results using the DB- Pedia QALD training query set showed that this combination represents a promising line of investigation, achieving a mean reciprocal rank of 0.489, precision of 0.395 and recall of 0.451.

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