How Useful Are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-Users? Export

@incollection{citeulike:1900426, abstract = {Natural language interfaces offer end-users a familiar and convenient option for querying ontology-based knowledge bases. Several studies have shown that they can achieve high retrieval performance as well as domain independence. This paper focuses on usability and investigates if NLIs are useful from an end-user's point of view. To that end, we introduce four interfaces each allowing a different query language and present a usability study benchmarking these interfaces. The results of the study reveal a clear preference for full sentences as query language and confirm that NLIs are useful for querying Semantic Web data.}, author = {Kaufmann, Esther and Bernstein, Abraham}, citeulike-article-id = {1900426}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_21}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_21}, journal = {The Semantic Web}, keywords = {naturallanguagequery, semantics, visualization}, pages = {281--294}, posted-at = {2009-04-27 14:26:18}, priority = {2}, title = {How Useful Are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-Users?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_21}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1900426 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1900426 N2 - Natural language interfaces offer end-users a familiar and convenient option for querying ontology-based knowledge bases. Several studies have shown that they can achieve high retrieval performance as well as domain independence. This paper focuses on usability and investigates if NLIs are useful from an end-user’s point of view. To that end, we introduce four interfaces each allowing a different query language and present a usability study benchmarking these interfaces. The results of the study reveal a clear preference for full sentences as query language and confirm that NLIs are useful for querying Semantic Web data. JF - The Semantic Web EP - 294 TI - How Useful Are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-Users? SP - 281 KW - naturallanguagequery KW - semantics KW - visualization AU - Kaufmann, Esther AU - Bernstein, Abraham PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_21 ER -