Linguistically-expressed Question

A Linguistically-expressed Question is a question that is in the form of a linguistic item.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Interrogative Sentence to being a Interrogative Passage.
  • It can range from being a Direct Question to being an Indirect Question.
  • It can range from being an Unambiguous Natural Language Question to being an Ambiguous Natural Language Question.
  • It can range from being:
    • a NL Factoid Question, such as a factoid question sentence;
    • a NL List Question, such as a list question sentence;
    • a NL Definition Question, such as a definition question sentence.
    • …
  • It can range from being an English Question, Japanese Question, German Question, Spanish Question, ...
• Example(s):
  • an Interrogative Sentence, such as “Why does the cat like Bill?”.
  • an Interrogative Passage, such as “The cat likes Bill. Why Bill?”.
  • a Summary-Request Question.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a SPARQL Question.
  • a Linguistically-expressed Command.
• See: Logic-expressed Question.

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References

2016

• (Atzori et al., 2016) ⇒ Maurizio Atzori, Shi Gao, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo, and Carlo Zaniolo. (2016). “Answering End-User Questions, Queries and Searches on Wikipedia and Its History.” In: IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 39(3).
  • QUOTE: We first describe CANaLI, that lets people enter Natural Language (NL) questions and translates them into SPARQL queries executed on DBpedia.

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