An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases
Summary: Ontology-based system for domain KBs; uses ontology to identify intents and bootstrap conversations with entities. Expert feedback refines patterns and generates training data, easing designer burden; IBM Micromedex hosts healthcare deployment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Abdul Quamar (IBM)
- 2. Chuan Lei (IBM)
- 3. Dorian Miller (IBM)
- 4. Fatma Özcan (IBM)
- 5. Jeffrey Kreulen (IBM)
- 6. Robert J Moore (IBM)
- 7. Vasilis Efthymiou (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{quamar_sigmod20,
title = {{An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases}},
author = {Quamar, Abdul and Lei, Chuan and Miller, Dorian and Özcan, Fatma and Kreulen, Jeffrey and Moore, Robert J and Efthymiou, Vasilis},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386139},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386139},
year = {2020}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,078 | State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.3728705e-05 |
| 9,113 | Conversational BI: An Ontology-Driven Conversation System for Business Intelligence Applications | 2020 | VLDB | 5.3218986e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 179 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00026838277 |
| 459 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00018101318 |
| 1,214 | SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users | 2012 | VLDB | 0.0001163751 |
| 2,778 | DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.1305875e-05 |
| 3,699 | KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases | 2017 | VLDB | 7.1882315e-05 |
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