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Open AccessA template-based approach for question answering over knowledge bases
In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex questions formulated by users in natural language. Since traditional information retrieval systems are not suitable for complex questions, these quest...
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Open AccessAn ontology-based approach for modelling and querying Alzheimer’s disease data
The recent advances in biotechnology and computer science have led to an ever-increasing availability of public biomedical data distributed in large databases worldwide. However, these data collections are far...
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Correction to: Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy by Evaluating the Relatedness of Concept Senses with the Linked Data Semantic Distance
In an older version of this paper, the online xml is fine but in the pdf the characters > and < are not recognized on page 69. This has been corrected.
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Open AccessONS: an ontology for a standardized description of interventions and observational studies in nutrition
The multidisciplinary nature of nutrition research is one of its main strengths. At the same time, however, it presents a major obstacle to integrate data analysis, especially for the terminological and semant...
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Towards Semantic Collective Awareness Platforms for Business Innovation
Innovation represents the main driver for enterprises to evolve, and very often to survive in the globalized market. In the last decades, innovation in enterprise contexts has seen the introduction of new para...
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Supporting Customer Choice with Semantic Similarity Search and Explanation
Semantic search and retrieval methods have a great potentiality in hel** customers to make choices, since they appear to outperform traditional keyword-based approaches. In this paper, we address SemSim, a sema...
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Cross-Domain Crawling for Innovation
Innovations, in any field, originate in the mind of people, on the base of mechanisms not yet completely understood. There have been many studies relevant to thinking techniques that have been proven to favor ...
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Future Internet Enterprise Systems: A Flexible Architectural Approach for Innovation
In recent years, the evolution of infrastructures and technologies carried out by emerging paradigms, such as Cloud Computing, Future Internet and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), is leading the area of enterpris...
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Towards Cross-Organizational Innovative Business Process Interoperability Services
This paper presents the vision and initial results of the COIN (FP7-IST-216256) European project for the development of open source Collaborative Business Process Interoperability (CBPip) in cross-organisation...
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Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX
Ontologies are emerging as a key solution for knowledge sharing in co-operative business environment. From the technology point of view, the growth of Internet use has favoured the development of environments ...
