Query generators producing sequences of SQL statements are embedded in many applications. As the execution time of such sequences is often far from optimal, their optimization is ...
Ontology mapping is the key to data interoperability in the semantic web vision. Computing mappings is the first step to applications such as query rewriting, instance sharing, we...
Sean M. Falconer, Natalya Fridman Noy, Margaret-An...
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
In the first part of this paper, we present a framework for enriching arbitrary upper or domain-specific ontologies with a concept of time. To do so, we need the notion of a time ...
In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...