Abstract. We present the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that uses answer set programming to compute consistent answers to first-order queries posed to relational databases ...
Abstract. In today’s global environment, the structure and presentation of information may depend on the underlying context of the user. To address this issue, in previous work w...
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
Recent research in domain-independent information extraction holds the promise of an automatically-constructed structured database derived from the Web. A query system based on th...
This paper introduces a new logical formalism, intended for temporal conceptual modelling, as a natural combination of the well-known description logic DLR and point-based linear ...