IEEE Intelligent Systems
Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering
NLDB '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems-Revised Papers
Sticky notes for the semantic web
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Better public policy through natural language information access
dg.o '03 Proceedings of the 2003 annual national conference on Digital government research
ENLG '07 Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Query-By-Keywords (QBK): Query Formulation Using Semantics and Feedback
ER '09 Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
How useful are natural language interfaces to the semantic web for casual end-users?
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Searching business process repositories using operational similarity
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
GINO – a guided input natural language ontology editor
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
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Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web is to help users locate, organize, and process information, we strongly believe that it should be grounded in the information access method humans are most comfortable with--natural language. However, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the foundation of the Semantic Web, was designed to be easily processed by computers, not humans. To render RDF friendlier to humans, we propose to augment it with natural language annotations, or metadata written in everyday language. We argue that natural language annotations are not only intuitive and effective, but can also accelerate the pace with which the Semantic Web is being adopted. We demonstrate the use of natural language annotations from within Haystack, an end user Semantic Web platform that also serves as a testbed for our ideas. In addition to a prototype Semantic Web question answering system, we describe other opportunities for marrying natural language and Semantic Web technology.