LELA - a natural language processing system for Romanian tourism

Author

Varga, Bernadette ; Trambitas-Miron, Alina Dia ; Roth, Andrei ; Marginean, Anca ; Slavescu, Radu Razvan ; Groza, Adrian

Author_Institution

Semantic Web Dept., Recognos Romania, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

288

Abstract

This paper presents a commercial semantic-based system for the Romanian tourism. The Lela system exploits both open linked data from Romanian and international sources, and also proprietary databases in the tourism domain. We present the process of creating the linked data set, based on: i) engineering the LELA Romanian tourism ontology, and ii) populating the ontology by linking open data. The system also provides a natural language interface for the Romanian language. The queries are automatically translated into SPARQL based on a controlled vocabulary derived from the Lela ontology.

Keywords

natural language interfaces; natural language processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); query languages; query processing; travel industry; Lela Romanian tourism ontology; Lela system; SPARQL; commercial semantic-based system; databases; linked data set; natural language interface; natural language processing system; open linked data; query translation; Blogs; Cities and towns; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Ontologies; Linked Data; Natural language processing; Query interfaces; Semantic information retrieval; Tourism ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2014 Federated Conference on

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Type

conf

DOI

10.15439/2014F323

Filename

6933026