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International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications

DASFAA 2005: Database Systems for Advanced Applications pp 214–225Cite as

SemEQUAL: Multilingual Semantic Matching in Relational Systems

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In an increasingly multilingual world, it is critical that information management tools organically support the simultaneous use of multiple natural languages. A pre-requisite for efficiently achieving this goal is that the underlying database engines must provide seamless matching of text data across languages. We propose here SemEQUAL, a new SQL functionality for semantic matching of multilingual attribute data. Our current implementation defines matches based on the standard WordNet linguistic ontologies. A performance evaluation of SemEQUAL, implemented using standard SQL:1999 features on a suite of commercial database systems indicates unacceptably slow response times. However, by tuning the schema and index choices to match typical linguistic features, we show that the performance can be improved to a level commensurate with online user interaction.

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  1. Database Systems Laboratory, SERC/CSA, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

    A. Kumaran & Jayant R. Haritsa

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  1. Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Lizhu Zhou

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Beng Chin Ooi

  3. School of Information, Renmin University of China,  

    Xiaofeng Meng

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Kumaran, A., Haritsa, J.R. (2005). SemEQUAL: Multilingual Semantic Matching in Relational Systems. In: Zhou, L., Ooi, B.C., Meng, X. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11408079_20

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