Abstract. A central task when integrating data from different sources is to detect identical items. For example, price comparison websites have to identify offers for identical p...
Record linkage refers to techniques for identifying records associated with the same real-world entities. Record linkage is not only crucial in integrating multi-source databases ...
Electronic B2B marketplaces bring together many online suppliers and buyers, each of which can potentially use his own format to represent the products in his product catalog. The ...
Abstract. The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. T...
: For the integration of data that resides in autonomous data sources Software AG uses ontologies. Data source ontologies describe the data sources themselves. Business ontologies ...