I'm introducing to the Natural Language Processing field and it's application. I'm planning to build a question answering system for a project, but some approaches are making me a bit confuse about the use of ontologies and it's application on the architecture of the system. I understand that an Ontology in definition is a way to represent concepts, relations about certain domains allowing semantic annotations also.
Some approaches uses an Ontology like a database, in which user's input (In natural language) is transformed to a SPARQL query by semantic parser and then the knowledge is retrieved of the ontology...But then, I asked my self if Ontology usually is a static knowledge that rarely changes and I want my system can increase knowledge of the domain with new instances or concepts because there are other systems (this is only a module of a big system) that probably are going to need data about instances present in the ontology to retrieved some specific attributes that could change over time... then, relational database comes to mind... And instead of using an ontology as a big database for whole project, why not to build a relational database with the instances of the domain where attributes can change dinamically and add new ones without make constantly in the ontology... So I could develop an ontology that represent the schema of the database, so I can map the natural language query of the user with the terms present in the ontology so I transform it to a SQL query which then I'm going to retrieved the answer in a relational database... I need to figured out how to parser instances of the ontology in the database with this approach.
Could this approach be correct ? I mean, using the ontology as a intermidiate between user query and relational database? , the only problem I see with this approach is that I need to figured out how to link instances of the database in the ontology ..
Thanks for your help, Greetings.
