NLIWoD 2015 - 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (NLIWoD 2015)

While the amount of Linked Open Data (LOD) increases rapidly, it is still used mostly by semantic web experts. There are two main obstacles to making the billions of RDF triples already available accessible for common web users: the need to learn the query language SPARQL, and the need to know the schemas underlying the datasets. Approaches to ease the burden of formulating a query include graphical query interfaces, agent-based systems, and natural language interfaces. Amongst them, natural language interfaces are receiving an increasing interest due to its high expressive power and low cost for educational purposes. Recent progresses in speech recognition technologies, e.g. Siri, also demonstrate the usefulness of a natural language interface. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on the use of natural-language interfaces (NLI) for answering questions over the web of data. The workshop will comprise short and long paper presentations, demo and poster presentations, and a panel of leading experts to discuss the state of the art in question answering over structured data.