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NDQA
2003
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Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
ISTA
2001
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A Technique for Information System Integration
: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
Sergio Greco, Luigi Pontieri, Ester Zumpano
IJCAI
2007
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Learning Semantic Descriptions of Web Information Sources
The Internet is full of information sources providing various types of data from weather forecasts to travel deals. These sources can be accessed via web-forms, Web Services or RS...
Mark James Carman, Craig A. Knoblock
LREC
2008
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Unsupervised and Domain Independent Ontology Learning: Combining Heterogeneous Sources of Evidence
Acquiring knowledge from the Web to build domain ontologies has become a common practice in the Ontological Engineering field. The vast amount of freely available information allo...
David Manzano-Macho, Asunción Gómez-...
ESWS
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Metadata Instantiation and Consolidation within an Ontology-based Multimedia Document Management System
Abstract. Automated modeling of appropriate and valid document descriptions is a central issue for the benefit and success of an ontologybased personal document management system. ...
Annett Mitschick, Ralf Nagel 0002, Klaus Meiß...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning from past queries for resource selection
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
Suleyman Cetintas, Luo Si, Hao Yuan
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Using Probabilistic Information in Data Integration
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
Daniela Florescu, Daphne Koller, Alon Y. Levy
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
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The InfoSleuth Project
The goal of the InfoSleuth project at MCC is to exploit and synthesize new technologies into a uni ed system that retrieves and processes information in an ever-changing network o...
Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., William Bohrer, Richard S....
COOPIS
1997
IEEE
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Semi-Automatic Wrapper Generation for Internet Information Sources
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...
Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock
SSDBM
1999
IEEE
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Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...