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ASWC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Miriam Ferná...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
176views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Efficient Table Anonymization for Aggregate Query Answering
Abstract-- Privacy protection is a major concern when microdata needs to be released for ad hoc analyses. This has led to a lot of recent research in privacy goals and table anonym...
Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivastava
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Ontology Reasoning with Individual Optimization: A Realization of the Semantic Web
Abstract. Answering a query over a group of RDF data pages is a trivial process. However, in the Semantic Web, there is a need for ontology technology. Consequently, OWL, a family ...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
101views Database» more  SIGMOD 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering
In large data warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to complex aggregate queries based on statistical summaries of the full data....
Swarup Acharya, Phillip B. Gibbons, Viswanath Poos...