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....
Abstract. The Semantic Web has recently seen a rise of large knowledge bases (such as DBpedia) that are freely accessible via SPARQL endpoints. The structured representation of the...
Philipp Heim, Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, St...
This paper presents the notion of Semantic Associations as complex relationships between resource entities. These relationships capture both a connectivity of entities as well as ...
Scalability of reasoning systems is one of the main criteria which will determine the success of Semantic Web systems in the future. The focus of recent work is either on (a) expre...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...