Controlled Natural Language Interface for querying the CLAVIUS resource - DEMO VERSION
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- The Resource
- A diachronic termino-ontological resource, named CLAVIUS, representing the evolution of astronomical concepts and theories from antiquity until the dawn of the modern age.
- CLAVIUS is being built within the Project Clavius on the Web and got its name from Cristophorus Clavius, a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, who was one of the most respected and influential scholars of his time.
- At the moment the resource is composed of 24 concepts and 82 terms.
- The resource is still being populated.
- The System (Click the lens icon on the upper toolbar)
- In order to make CLAVIUS accessible, a first preliminary version of a controlled natural language interface has been developed for querying the ontology.
- Researches could be performed by taking into account the lexical level, the ontological level or both.
- Queries templates were created in order to perform different types of interrogations, using some menus inside each template.
- Each template is made of a fixed part that typify a specific querying model and a variable part that allows the user to chose a certain element of the ontology from the drop-down list.
- Question templates are processed by the software into SPARQL queries aimed at interrogating the ontology, providing the user with the desired answers.
- The provided answers take into account the diachronic evolution of concepts and properties.
- Answers are be given both in a tabular form and by means of a timeline.
Developed by Literay Computing Lab © 2016 - Insitute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", CNR Pisa