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PODS
2007
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Provenance semirings
We show that relational algebra calculations for incomplete databases, probabilistic databases, bag semantics and whyprovenance are particular cases of the same general algorithms...
Todd J. Green, Gregory Karvounarakis, Val Tannen
ADC
2006
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
An optimization for query answering on ALC database
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
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ACL
1989
15 years 3 months ago
The Lexical Semantics of Comparative Expressions in a Multi-Level Semantic Processor
Comparative expressions (CEs) such as "bigger than" and "more oranges than" are highly ambiguous, and their meaning is context dependent. Thus, they pose probl...
Duane E. Olawsky
GEOS
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Case for Grounding Databases
What is the intended interpretation of a geospatial database in terms of reproducible experiences? How should places on a digital globe be interpreted on the earth surface? And how...
Simon Scheider
DGO
2003
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15 years 3 months ago
SemView: A Semantic-sensitive Distributed Image Retrieval System
State-of-art image retrieval techniques have been developed to support high-level (semantics) querying and browsing of images. For certain user queries, it is also very important ...
Wei Wang, Yimin Wu, Aidong Zhang