Question Answering System over Linked Data: A Detailed Survey

Authors

  • G. M. Rasiqul Islam Rasiq DIU
  • Abdullah Al Sefat AUST
  • Tanjila Hossain AUST
  • Md. Israt-E-Hasan Munna AUST
  • Jubayeath Jahan Jisha AUST
  • Mohammad Moinul Hoque AUST

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ra.v8i1.449

Keywords:

Natural Language Processing, Question Answering (QA) Systems, Ontological resources

Abstract

As the amount of information in the world is growing very quickly, in the case of the semantic web this increasing amount of information is becoming more difficult to find and manage the exact answers to our various questions. To overcome these difficulties some systems have been developed that make it work for us. But there exists many challenges in developing these systems that require a lot of improvement. In this tutorial, we give a basic understanding of Semantic web, RDF triple, SPARQL query language. Here we will discuss the main obstacles for the QA system in processing the questions and a detailed survey of the existing systems. We also provide some advantages and disadvantages of existing QA systems. We also discuss the evaluation campaigns of the existing models based on their precision, recall and F-1 scores on the QALD dataset.

 

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Author Biographies

G. M. Rasiqul Islam Rasiq, DIU

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abdullah Al Sefat, AUST

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tanjila Hossain, AUST

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Israt-E-Hasan Munna, AUST

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jubayeath Jahan Jisha, AUST

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Moinul Hoque, AUST

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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2020-04-14

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Rasiq, G. M. R. I. ., Sefat, A. A. ., Hossain, T. ., Munna, M. I.-E.-H. ., Jisha, J. J. ., & Hoque, M. M. . (2020). Question Answering System over Linked Data: A Detailed Survey. ABC Research Alert, 8(1), 32–47. https://doi.org/10.18034/ra.v8i1.449

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