Knowledge Beacons: Web services for data harvesting of distributed biomedical knowledge

Harvesting Knowledge from Web Data and Text

The Web bears the potential of being the world’s greatest encyclopedic source, but we are far from fully exploiting this potential. Valuable scientific and cultural content is interspersed with a huge amount of noisy, lowquality, unstructured text and media. The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages give...

Coupling Knowledge Bases and Web Services for Active Knowledge

We present ANGIE, a system that can answer user queries by combining knowledge from a local database with knowledge retrieved from Web services. If a user poses a query that cannot be answered by the local database alone, ANGIE calls the appropriate Web services to retrieve the missing information. In ANGIE, Web services act as dynamic components of the knowledge base that deliver knowledge on ...

Harvesting and Organizing Knowledge from the Web

Information organization and search on the Web is gaining structure and context awareness and more semantic flavor, for example, in the forms of faceted search, vertical search, entity search, and Deep-Web search. I envision another big leap forward by automatically harvesting and organizing knowledge from the Web, represented in terms of explicit entities and relations as well as ontological c...

Designing Grid services for distributed knowledge discovery

The increasing use of computers in all the areas of human activities is resulting in huge collections of digital data. Databases are common everywhere and are used as repositories of every kind of data. Knowledge discovery techniques and tools are used today to analyze those very large data sets to identify interesting patterns and trends in them. When data is maintained over geographically dis...

Knowledge - Based Web Services for Context