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  <Title>Ontology-Based Natural Language Query Processing for the Biological Domain</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a natural language query engine that enables users to search for entities, relationships, and events that are extracted from biological literature.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The query interpretation is guided by a domain ontology, which provides a mapping between linguistic structures and domain conceptual relations. We focus on the usability of the natural language interface to users who are used to keyword-based information retrieval. Preliminary evaluation of our approach using the GENIA corpus and ontology shows promising results.</Paragraph>
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