An increasing amount of Web data is accessible only by filling out HTML forms to query an underlying data source. While this is most welcome from a user perspective (queries are e...
The modalities of search and browse dominate current thinking about interaction with the Web. Given the Web's origins as a global hypertext system, it is understandable that t...
Many approaches to Information Extraction (IE) have been proposed in literature capable of finding and extract specific facts in relatively unstructured documents. Their applicatio...
Accessing and integrating data from heterogeneous sources has become a significant challenge. So-called adapters provide the functionality for translating SQL queries into querie...
Data warehouses (DWs) are complex computer systems whose main goal is to facilitate the decision making process of knowledge workers. ETL (Extraction-Transformation-Loading) proces...