Abstract. Ontology reasoning is an indispensable step to fully exploit the implicit semantics of Semantic Web data. The inherent distribution characteristic of the Semantic Web and...
We present an approach for querying collections of heterogeneous linguistic corpora that are annotated on multiple layers using arbitrary XML-based markup languages. An OWL ontolo...
Georg Rehm, Richard Eckart, Christian Chiarcos, Jo...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...
Formal principles governing best practices in classification and definition have for too long been neglected in the construction of biomedical ontologies, in ways which have import...