To realize the Semantic Web, it will be necessary to make existing database content available for emerging Semantic Web applications, such as web agents and services, which use on...
Dejing Dou, Paea LePendu, Shiwoong Kim, Peishen Qi
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Abstract. Ontology based data access (OBDA) is concerned with providing access to typically very large data sources through a mediating conceptual layer that allows one to improve ...
Elena Botoeva, Diego Calvanese, Mariano Rodriguez-...
The Web as a global information space is developing from a Web of documents to a Web of data. This development opens new ways for addressing complex information needs. Search is n...
Haofen Wang, Thomas Penin, Kaifeng Xu, Junquan Che...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...