Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering

Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy J. Lin, Gregory Marton, Alton Jerome McFarland, Baris Temelkuran (2002) ( PDF ): Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering. Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 2553 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Pages: 230 - 234

Abstract:

Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the Web into a virtual database and to access it through natural language. We built Omnibase, a system that integrates heterogeneous data sources using an object-property-value model. With the help of Omnibase, our Start natural language system can now access numerous heterogeneous data sources on the Web in a uniform manner, and answers millions of user questions with high precision.