This paper will address the debate existing between promoters of the Semantic Web [1] and NLP oriented practitioners of the web like us but in particular we will be referring to the creators of the START QA system [6]: the former believe that by simply establishing a standard in the format of the information to be published on the web they will allow natural language communication, i.e. question/answering, to ensue. On the contrary, practitioners of the web find it totally misleading and insufficient in itself: they assume that natural language facilities must come first. This debate is reminiscent of a similar debate existing between people working in the NLP paradigm who have witnessed an increasing gap dividing on the one side, Knowledge Representation oriented researchers – usually engineers, their implementations being some variant of expert systems; on the other side, NLP oriented computational linguists who have continued working within the domain of a syntactic-semantic approach, not disregarding the relevance of knowledge of the world, but trying to reduce its impact on the overall architecture of a Text/Speech Understanding System.
Semantic Web, RDFs and NLP for QA
DELMONTE, Rodolfo;
2003-01-01
Abstract
This paper will address the debate existing between promoters of the Semantic Web [1] and NLP oriented practitioners of the web like us but in particular we will be referring to the creators of the START QA system [6]: the former believe that by simply establishing a standard in the format of the information to be published on the web they will allow natural language communication, i.e. question/answering, to ensue. On the contrary, practitioners of the web find it totally misleading and insufficient in itself: they assume that natural language facilities must come first. This debate is reminiscent of a similar debate existing between people working in the NLP paradigm who have witnessed an increasing gap dividing on the one side, Knowledge Representation oriented researchers – usually engineers, their implementations being some variant of expert systems; on the other side, NLP oriented computational linguists who have continued working within the domain of a syntactic-semantic approach, not disregarding the relevance of knowledge of the world, but trying to reduce its impact on the overall architecture of a Text/Speech Understanding System.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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