The emergence of Web 2.0 has resulted in a huge amount of heterogeneous data that are contributed by a large number of users, engendering new challenges for data management and qu...
To enable information integration, schema matching is a critical step for discovering semantic correspondences of attributes across heterogeneous sources. As a new attempt, this p...
Geospatial data sharing is an increasingly important subject as large amount of data is produced by variety of sources, stored in incompatible formats, and accessible through diffe...
Abstract. We present a novel, simple, unsupervised method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between nouns in noun-noun compounds. The main idea is to discover pre...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...