Merging and ranking answers in the semantic web: The wisdom of crowds

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5926 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 135-152

  Lopez, Vanessa ^a   Nikolov, Andriy ^a   Fernandez, Miriam ^a   Sabou, Marta ^a   Uren, Victoria ^a   Motta, Enrico ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fusion; Merging; Question Answering; Ranking; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES; MERGING ALGORITHMS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; RANKING ALGORITHM; SEARCH RESULTS; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION;

ALGORITHMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

MERGING;

EID: 77049107989     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10871-6_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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