Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Classical ontologies are not suitable to represent imprecise nor uncertain pieces of information. As a solution we will combine fuzzy Description Logics with a possibilistic layer....
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
ss domain. Using this more abstract approach means that more data sources of varying types can be incorporated with less effort, and such heterogeneous data sources might be very r...
Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires mappings between them. Matching applications generate these mappings. When the matching process utilizes ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunc...