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title = "A Text-based Query Interface to {OWL} Ontologies",
author = "Damljanovic, Danica and
Tablan, Valentin and
Bontcheva, Kalina",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Text-based Query Interface to OWL Ontologies](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/64_paper.pdf) (Damljanovic et al., LREC 2008)
ACL
- Danica Damljanovic, Valentin Tablan, and Kalina Bontcheva. 2008. A Text-based Query Interface to OWL Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).