We believe that the possibility to use SPARQL as a front end to heterogeneous data without significant cost in performance or expressive power is key to RDF taking its rightful pla...
Abstract. Besides topological relations and approximate relations, cardinal directions have turned out to be an important class of qualitative spatial relations. In spatial databas...
Tao Chen, Markus Schneider, Ganesh Viswanathan, We...
Given a set Q of keywords, conventional keyword search (KS) returns a set of tuples, each of which (i) is obtained from a single relation, or by joining multiple relations, and (i...
We present a method for extracting selectional preferences of verbs from unannotated text. These selectional preferences are linked to an ontology (e.g. the hypernym relations foun...
PowerAqua1 is a Question Answering system, which takes as input a natural language query and is able to return answers drawn from relevant semantic resources found anywhere on the...
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria S. Uren, Marta Sabou, Enri...