Extraction and Exploitation of Intensional Knowledge from Heterogeneous Information Sources Semi-Automatic Approaches and Tools /

• Main Author: Ursino, Domenico (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2282
• Subjects: Database management.; Artificial intelligence.; Information storage and retrieval.; Database Management.; Artificial Intelligence.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

The problem of integrating multiple information sources into a uni?ed data store is currently one of the most important challenges in data management. Within the ?eld of source integration, the problem of automatically gen- ating an integrated description of the data sources is surely one of the mos...

Table of Contents:

• Property Extraction
• Extraction of Synonymies, Homonymies, and Type Conflicts
• Extraction of Object Cluster Similarities
• Extraction of Hyponymies and Overlappings
• Extraction of Assertions between Knowledge Patterns
• Construction of a Cooperative Information System and of a Data Warehouse
• Construction of a Data Repository
• Construction of a Cooperative Information System
• Construction of a Data Warehouse
• System Description and Experimentations
• The System D.I.K.E.
• Experiments on the Derivation of Similarities and Type Conflicts
• Experiments on the Extraction of Hyponymies
• Experiments on the Extraction of Assertions between Knowledge Patterns
• Experiments on the Construction of a Data Repository
• Using the CIS Relative to ICGO Databases
• Final Issues
• A Look at the Future
• Conclusions.