Flexible Query Answering Systems: 8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Flexible Querying Approach Based on Outranking and Classification....Pages 1-12
Ranking Approximate Query Rewritings Based on Views....Pages 13-24
A Model for Contextual Cooperative Query Answering in E-Commerce Applications....Pages 25-36
Reasoning on Incompleteness of Spatial Information for Effectively and Efficiently Answering Range Queries over Incomplete Spatial Databases....Pages 37-52
Abstracting Query Building for Multi-entity Faceted Browsing....Pages 53-63
On Fuzzy vs. Metric Similarity Search in Complex Databases....Pages 64-75
Querying Context-Aware Databases....Pages 76-87
An Exploratory Study on Using Social Information Networks for Flexible Literature Access....Pages 88-98
Dynamically Personalizing Search Results for Mobile Users....Pages 99-110
On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query –An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion–....Pages 111-121
Sociomapping in Text Retrieval Systems....Pages 122-133
Query Reformulation Based on Relevance Feedback....Pages 134-144
Multi-objective Query Optimization Using Topic Ontologies....Pages 145-156
Effectiveness of Aggregation Methods in Blog Distillation....Pages 157-167
Structural Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval....Pages 168-178
Query Disambiguation Based on Novelty and Similarity User’s Feedback....Pages 179-190
Extraction of 3D Feature Descriptor Using the Distribution of Normal Vectors....Pages 191-200
Re-ranking Documents Based on Query-Independent Document Specificity....Pages 201-214
Browsing Recommendation Based on the Intertemporal Choice Model....Pages 215-226
Design of an Interface for Interactive Topic Detection and Tracking....Pages 227-238
Representing Context Information for Document Retrieval....Pages 239-250
Searching Multiple Artifacts: A Comprehensive Framework for Complex Search Situations....Pages 251-262
Expected Answer Type Identification from Unprocessed Noisy Questions....Pages 263-274
ONTOGRABBING: Extracting Information from Texts Using Generative Ontologies....Pages 275-286
Mining Tree-Based Frequent Patterns from XML....Pages 287-299
Automatic Web Pages Author Extraction....Pages 300-311
Syntactic Extraction Approach to Processing Local Document Collections....Pages 312-322
Conceptual Indexing of Text Using Ontologies and Lexical Resources....Pages 323-332
Information Extraction from Text Based on Semantic Inferentialism....Pages 333-344
Flexible SPARQL Querying of Web Data Tables Driven by an Ontology....Pages 345-357
Trajectory Clustering via Effective Partitioning....Pages 358-370
Semantically Expanding Questions for Supervised Automatic Classification....Pages 371-381
GRAANK: Exploiting Rank Correlations for Extracting Gradual Itemsets....Pages 382-393
Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies....Pages 394-405
A Semantic Similarity Measure for Ontology-Based Information....Pages 406-417
An Extendable Meta-learning Algorithm for Ontology Mapping....Pages 418-430
Accessing and Documenting Relational Databases through OWL Ontologies....Pages 431-442
A Formal Framework on the Semantics of Regulatory Relations and Their Presence as Verbs in Biomedical Texts....Pages 443-452
Ontology Graphical Editor for Multilingual Document Search System....Pages 453-464
Finding Top- k Approximate Answers to Path Queries....Pages 465-476
Extraction of Conditional and Causal Sentences from Queries to Provide a Flexible Answer....Pages 477-487
Semantic Enrichment of Database Textual Attributes....Pages 488-499
Interlingual Information Extraction as a Solution for Multilingual QA Systems....Pages 500-511
Semantic Paraphrasing for Information Retrieval and Extraction....Pages 512-523
Named Entity Recognition Experiments on Turkish Texts....Pages 524-535
Fuzzy Querying in Intelligent Information Systems....Pages 536-547
Content-Based Retrieval of Audio in News Broadcasts....Pages 548-559
Linguistic Summary-Based Query Answering on Data Cubes with Time Dimension....Pages 560-571
About Bipolar Division Operators....Pages 572-582
On Reaching Consensus by a Group of Collaborating Agents....Pages 583-592
Dealing with Positive and Negative Query Criteria in Fuzzy Database Querying....Pages 593-604
Predicting Neighbor Goodness in Collaborative Filtering....Pages 605-616
Content-Oriented Relevance Feedback in XML-IR Using the Garnata Information Retrieval System....Pages 617-628
Exploiting Social Tagging Profiles to Personalize Web Search....Pages 629-640
Incremental Personalised Summarisation with Novelty Detection....Pages 641-652
Stream Reasoning: A Survey and Further Research Directions....Pages 653-662
Feed Querying as a Proxy for Querying the Web....Pages 663-674
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