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The tasks related to answering a question or clarifying doubts are determined primarily by a good analysis of the question in order to identify the target subject of the response. This paper presents a question-answer system (QAS) that uses ontologies and information retrieval techniques in analyzing the question and thus improving the extraction of a relevant response, most importantly, from resources available on the Internet.
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Amorim, M.T., Cury, D., de Menezes, C.S. (2014). On the Use of Ontologies to Guide Agents Answering Questions. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05951-8_50
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