While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
This paper describes SODA a novel ontology alignment method for the OWL-DL format. SODA uses a new approach that consists in computing local and semantic similarities among ontolog...
Sami Zghal, Sadok Ben Yahia, Engelbert Mephu Nguif...
— This paper proposes a new approach for handling overload in Publish/Subscribe systems. We focus on the fact that every service has to cope with the limitations imposed by the e...
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...