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A Conceptual-Model-Based Computational Alembic for a Web of Knowledge

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008 (ER 2008)

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The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can we make it possible for users to search directly for facts embedded in web pages? Instead of a web of human-readable pages containing machine-inaccessible facts, can the web be a web of machine-accessible facts superimposed over a web of human-readable pages? Ultimately, can the web be a WoK (a Web of Knowledge) that can provide direct answers to factual questions and support these answers by referencing and highlighting relevant base facts embedded in source pages?

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 0414644 and grant no. 0414854.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, USA

    David W. Embley, Robert Clawson, Jordan Crabtree, Yihong Ding, Zonghui Lian, Stephen Lynn, Jeff Peters, Cui Tao, Robby Watts, Charla Woodbury & Andrew Zitzelberger

  2. Department of Information Systems, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  3. Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602

    Deryle Lonsdale

  4. Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 12180

    George Nagy, Piyushee Jha & Raghav K. Padmanabhan

  5. Department of Applied Informatics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe-Sanda, Japan

    Yuri Tijerino

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  2. EPFL-IC-IIF-LBD, Station 14 - INJ 236, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stefano Spaccapietra

  3. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, M5S 3G6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Eric Yu

  4. Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Antoni Olivé

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Embley, D.W. et al. (2008). A Conceptual-Model-Based Computational Alembic for a Web of Knowledge. In: Li, Q., Spaccapietra, S., Yu, E., Olivé, A. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008. ER 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_47

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