We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
We present Nyaya, a system for the management of Semantic-Web data which couples a general-purpose and extensible storage mechanism with efficient ontology reasoning and querying ...
Roberto De Virgilio, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, ...
Bioinformaticians are accustomed to going through analysis steps, in which they employ several data sources, like protein sequence and protein interaction databases, to carry out t...
Farzad Kohantorabi, Gregory Butler, Christopher J....
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...