Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...
The demand for ontologies is rapidly growing especially due to developments in knowledge management, E-commerce and the Semantic Web. Building an ontology and a background knowled...
Abstract. In this paper, we target document ranking in a highly technical field with the aim to approximate a ranking that is obtained through an existing ontology (knowledge stru...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Juan Manuel ...
Abstract. We discuss our DLDB knowledge base system and evaluate its capability in processing a very large set of real-world Semantic Web data. Using DLDB, we have constructed the ...