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Author FQAS (Conference) (9th : 2011 : Ghent, Belgium)

Title Flexible query answering systems : 9th International Conference, FQAS 2011, Ghent, Belgium, October 26-28, 2011, proceedings / Henning Christiansen [and others] (eds.)
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 510 pages)
Series Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 7022
Lecture notes in computer science, 0302-9743
LNCS sublibrary. SL 7, Artificial intelligence
Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 7022
Lecture notes in computer science.
LNCS sublibrary. SL 7, Artificial intelligence.
Contents Intro; Title Page; Preface; Organization; Table of Contents; Logical Approaches to Flexible Querying; Generalizing Conjunctive Queries for Informative Answers; Introduction and Related Work; Cooperative Query Answering for Knowledge Bases; Query Generalization; Cooperative Query Answering for Conjunctive Queries; Dropping Condition; Anti-instantiation; Goal Replacement; Combining Generalization Operators; Discussion and Conclusion; References; ReAction: Personalized Minimal Repair Adaptations for Customer Requests; Introduction; Example: Digital Camera; Identifying Minimal Repair Sets
AlgorithmMore Repair Sets; Evaluation; Related Work; Conclusion and Future Work; References; Uncertainty That Counts; Motivation; Preliminaries; Basic Notions; Counts Versus Fractions; Related Work; The Boundary of Tractability; Conclusion; References; Structured Data-Based Q & A System Using Surface Patterns; Introduction; Related Work; Linguistic Patterns, Definitions and Hypothesis; Architecture and Implementation Details; Question Processing; Pattern Matching; Answer Processing; Answer Federation; Evaluation Criteria and Experiments; Evaluation Criteria and Scenarios; Experiments
Conclusion and Future WorkReferences; Fuzzy Logic in Spatial and Temporal Data Modeling and Querying; Higher Reasoning with Level-2 Fuzzy Regions; Introduction; Fuzzy Regions; Simple Fuzzy Regions; Fuzzy Regions Using Powerset; Level-2 Fuzzy Regions; Definition; Combination of Level-2 Fuzzy Regions; Set Operations; Construction of and Reasoning with Level-2 Regions; Application Examples; Feature Representation; Representation of Query Results; Usage in Querying; Conclusion; References; Bipolar Fuzzy Querying of Temporal Databases; Introduction; Preliminaries; Bipolar Satisfaction Degrees
Time in DatabasesProposal; Context; Approach; Example; Conclusions; References; Implementation of X-Tree with 3D Spatial Index and Fuzzy Secondary Index; Introduction; Background; X-Tree; Implementation Details; Implementation of the X-Tree Structure; Performance Tests; Point Query; Range Query; Nearest Neighbor Query; Conclusion; References; Knowledge-Based Approaches; Semantic Processing of Database Textual Attributes Using Wikipedia; Introduction; Semantic Representation of Non-structured Texts; Semantic Extension Using Wikipedia; Wikipedia Category Graph
Semantic Extension of AP-Sets Using WikipediaMeasures for Category Selection; Statistical Indexes; Semantic Similarity Measures; Information Content Measures; Method Selection; Conclusions and Future Work; References; Querying Class-Relationship Logic in a Metalogic Framework; Introduction; Class-Relationship Logic CRL; Example Knowledge Base; Knowledge Base Dually as Graph and Natural Logic; Ontology Part Proper; CRL Metalogic Level in Datalog; Axioms and Deduction at the CRL Metalogic Level; Partial Ordering of Inclusion; Inheritance Axioms; Axioms for Inverses
Summary This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2011, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in October 2011. The 43 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logical approaches to flexible querying, fuzzy logic in spatial and temporal data modeling and querying, knowledge-based approaches, multimedia, data fuzziness, reliability and trust, information retrieval, preference queries, flexible querying of graph data, ranking, ordering and statistics, query recommendation and interpretation, as well as on fuzzy databases and applications (8 papers presented in a special session)
Analysis Computer science
Database management
Data mining
Information storage and retrieval systems
Artificial intelligence
Translators (Computer programs)
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Information Storage and Retrieval
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Language Translation and Linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and author index
Notes English
Subject Question-answering systems -- Congresses
Database searching -- Congresses
Informatique.
Database searching
Question-answering systems
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Christiansen, Henning, 1955-
ISBN 9783642247644
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3642247636
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