Abstract-- The problem of private information "leakage" (inadvertently or by malicious design) from the myriad large centralized searchable data repositories drives the n...
Lalitha Sankar, S. Raj Rajagopalan, H. Vincent Poo...
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...
A plausible definition of "reasoning" could be "algebraically manipulating previously acquired knowledge in order to answer a new question". This definition co...
One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user commu...
Determining whether two terms in text have an ancestor relation (e.g. Toyota and car) or a sibling relation (e.g. Toyota and Honda) is an essential component of textual inference ...