EDITS A domain-specific ontology for question answering in the domain of tourism. It is encoded in OWL DL and covers several important aspects related to the tourism industry, including tourism destinations (i.e. cities and towns), tourism sites (i.e. accommodation, gastro, attraction, and infrastructure) , tourism events (e.g. movie and show) and transportation. To expand domain-specific concepts to general terms, the QALL-ME ontology was aligned with two upper ontologies - WordNet and SUMO. The ontology contains 122 classes (concepts), 55 datatype properties and 52 object properties which indicate the relationships among the 122 classes. The 122 classes are categorized into 15 top-level classes. The class hierarchy has a maximum depth of 4.

>> Qall-me Ontology V4.0

[ZIP file, 17 KB] - [OWL file, 140 KB]

>> Mappings between Qall-me Ontology V4.0 and WordNet2.1

[GS_WN2.1_concepts.txt (16 KB)] and [GS_WN2.1_properties.txt (7 KB)]

>> Mappings between Qall-me Ontology V4.0 and SUMO

[qm_wn2.1_sumo-concepts.txt (5 KB)] and [qm_wn2.1_sumo-properties.txt (3 KB)]

note: concepts file name represents the mapping to ontology concepts and properties file name represents the mapping to the ontology datatype properties.

Reference:

• Shiyan Ou, Viktor Pekar, Constantin Orasan, Christian Spurk, Matteo Negri (2008). Development and alignment of a domain-specific ontology for question answering. In Proceedings of the 6th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-08). Marrakech, Morocco, May 28th-30th 2008. [pfd]