The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Several commercial applications, such as online comparison shopping and process automation, require integrating information that is scattered across multiple websites or XML docum...