Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
We describe a knowledge server that permits Web users to retrieve and add knowledge in a shared knowledge base. The following features distinguish WebKB-2 from other ontology serve...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
The last few years, there has been an extensive body of literature in data warehousing applications that primarily focuses on basket-type (transactional) data, common in retail in...
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...