In the context of the Semantic Web, several approaches to the combination of ontologies, given in terms of theories of classical first-order logic, and rule bases have been propo...
Jos de Bruijn, Thomas Eiter, Axel Polleres, Hans T...
Information extraction (IE) holds the promise of generating a large-scale knowledge base from the Web’s natural language text. Knowledge-based weak supervision, using structured...
Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke S....
Message hierarchies in web discussion boards grow with new postings. Threads of messages evolve as new postings focus within or diverge from the original themes of the threads. Th...
It is crucial in many information systems to organize short text segments, such as keywords in documents and queries from users, into a well-formed topic hierarchy. In this paper,...
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...