In this paper, we argue that implementing the grand vision of the Semantic Web would greatly benefit from a service which can enable the reuse of globally unique URIs across semant...
Recognizing that information from different sources refers to the same (real world) entity is a crucial challenge in instance-level information integration, as it is a pre-requisi...
Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Claudia Nieder&eacu...
To investigate the problem of entity recognition, we deal with the creation of the so-called Entity Name System (ENS) which is an open, public back-bone infrastructure for the (Sem...
— We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in the use of the web as an information and knowledge source. Much of the information sought after in the web is in this case...
Heiko Stoermer, Themis Palpanas, George Giannakopo...
We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it o...