The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Entity matching is a crucial and difficult task for data integration. Entity matching frameworks
provide several methods and their combination to effectively solve different match tasks. In …

In this paper, we discuss the architecture and implementation of the Semantic Web Search
Engine (SWSE). Following traditional search engine architecture, SWSE consists of …

In this article, we address the problem of reference disambiguation. Specifically, we consider
a situation where entities in the database are referred to using descriptions (eg, a set of …

Many data sets contain temporal records over a long period of time; each record is
associated with a time stamp and describes some aspects of a real-world entity at that …

With respect to large-scale, static, Linked Data corpora, in this paper we discuss scalable
and distributed methods for entity consolidation (aka. smushing, entity resolution, object …

In this paper we address the problem of reference disambiguation. Specifically, we consider
a situation where entities in the database are referred to using descriptions (eg, a set of …

Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant
research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descriptions …

Current web search engines essentially conduct document-level ranking and retrieval.
However, structured information about realworld objects embedded in static webpages and …

Nowadays, searches for webpages of a person with a given name constitute a notable
fraction of queries to web search engines. Such a query would normally return webpages …