“Askwiki”: Shallow semantic processing to query Wikipedia

We describe an application to query Wikipedia with a voice interface on a mobile device, i.e. smart phone or tablet computer. The aim was to develop a so-called App that installs easily on an android phone and does not need large vocabularies. It can be used to either answer questions directly, if the information is contained in a table or matches some keyword syntax (like birth place), or get access to an article's sub chapter. An evaluation based on 25 test users showed the feasibility of the approach.