We describe in this paper a new method for extracting knowledge on Hierarchical Task-Network (HTN) planning problems for speeding up the search. This knowledge is gathered by prop...
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
Decomposing complex software systems into conceptually independent subsystems is a significant software engineering activity which received considerable research attention. Most o...
In this paper, we want to show which difficulties arise when automatically constructing a domain-independent knowledge base from the web. We show possible applications for such a k...
Research on data integration has provided languages and systems able to guarantee an integrated intensional representation of a given set of data sources. A significant limitation...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Mirko Orsini,...