TY - GEN
T1 - Adaptive retrieval of semi-structured data
AU - Ben-Asher, Yosi
AU - Berkovsky, Shlomo
AU - Busetta, Paolo
AU - Eytani, Yaniv
AU - Jbara, Sadek
AU - Kuflik, Tsvi
PY - 2008/10/6
Y1 - 2008/10/6
N2 - The rapidly growing amount of heterogeneous semi-structured data available on the Web is creating a need for simple and universal access methods. For this purpose, we propose exploiting the notion of UNSpecified Ontology (UNSO), where the data objects are described using a list of attributes and their values. To facilitate efficient management of UNSO data objects, we use LoudVoice, a multi-agent channeled multicast communication platform, where each attribute is assigned a designated communication channel. This allows efficient searches to be performed by querying only the relevant channels, and aggregating the partial results. We implemented a prototype system and experimented with a corpus of real-life E-Commerce advertisements. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields a high level of accuracy and scalability.
AB - The rapidly growing amount of heterogeneous semi-structured data available on the Web is creating a need for simple and universal access methods. For this purpose, we propose exploiting the notion of UNSpecified Ontology (UNSO), where the data objects are described using a list of attributes and their values. To facilitate efficient management of UNSO data objects, we use LoudVoice, a multi-agent channeled multicast communication platform, where each attribute is assigned a designated communication channel. This allows efficient searches to be performed by querying only the relevant channels, and aggregating the partial results. We implemented a prototype system and experimented with a corpus of real-life E-Commerce advertisements. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields a high level of accuracy and scalability.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=52949128028&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52949128028
SN - 3540709843
SN - 9783540709848
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 32
EP - 41
BT - Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems - 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008
Y2 - 29 July 2008 through 1 August 2008
ER -