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Bootstrapping semantics on the web: meaning elicitation from schemas

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Luciano Serafini,

Stefano Zanobini,

Simone ScefferAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 505 - 512

https://doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135851

Published: 23 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

In most web sites, web-based applications (such as web portals, e-marketplaces, search engines), and in the file systems of personal computers, a wide variety of schemas (such as taxonomies, directory trees, thesauri, Entity-Relationship schemas, RDF Schemas) are published which (i) convey a clear meaning to humans (e.g. help in the navigation of large collections of documents), but (ii) convey only a small fraction (if any) of their meaning to machines, as their intended meaning is not formally/explicitly represented. In this paper we present a general methodology for automatically eliciting and representing the intended meaning of these structures, and for making this meaning available in domains like information integration and interoperability, web service discovery and composition, peer-to-peer knowledge management, and semantic browsers. We also present an implementation (called CtxMatch2) of how such a method can be used for semantic interoperability.

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Index Terms

Bootstrapping semantics on the web: meaning elicitation from schemas
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Cooperation and coordination
    2. Knowledge representation and reasoning
2. Theory of computation
  1. Logic

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