Flexible Query Answering Systems: 8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback)

Database Management.- A Flexible Querying Approach Based on Outranking and Classification.- Ranking Approximate Query Rewritings Based on Views.- A Model for Contextual Cooperative Query Answering in E-Commerce Applications.- Reasoning on Incompleteness of Spatial Information for Effectively and Efficiently Answering Range Queries over Incomplete Spatial Databases.- Abstracting Query Building for Multi-entity Faceted Browsing.- On Fuzzy vs. Metric Similarity Search in Complex Databases.- Querying Context-Aware Databases.- Information Retrieval.- An Exploratory Study on Using Social Information Networks for Flexible Literature Access.- Dynamically Personalizing Search Results for Mobile Users.- On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query -An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion-.- Sociomapping in Text Retrieval Systems.- Query Reformulation Based on Relevance Feedback.- Multi-objective Query Optimization Using Topic Ontologies.- Effectiveness of Aggregation Methods in Blog Distillation.- Structural Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval.- Query Disambiguation Based on Novelty and Similarity User's Feedback.- Extraction of 3D Feature Descriptor Using the Distribution of Normal Vectors.- Re-ranking Documents Based on Query-Independent Document Specificity.- Browsing Recommendation Based on the Intertemporal Choice Model.- Design of an Interface for Interactive Topic Detection and Tracking.- Representing Context Information for Document Retrieval.- Searching Multiple Artifacts: A Comprehensive Framework for Complex Search Situations.- Extraction and Mining.- Expected Answer Type Identification from Unprocessed Noisy Questions.- ONTOGRABBING: Extracting Information from Texts Using Generative Ontologies.- Mining Tree-Based Frequent Patterns from XML.- Automatic Web Pages Author Extraction.- Syntactic Extraction Approach to Processing Local Document Collections.- Conceptual Indexing of Text Using Ontologies and Lexical Resources.- Information Extraction from Text Based on Semantic Inferentialism.- Flexible SPARQL Querying of Web Data Tables Driven by an Ontology.- Trajectory Clustering via Effective Partitioning.- Semantically Expanding Questions for Supervised Automatic Classification.- GRAANK: Exploiting Rank Correlations for Extracting Gradual Itemsets.- Ontologies and Semantic Web.- Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies.- A Semantic Similarity Measure for Ontology-Based Information.- An Extendable Meta-learning Algorithm for Ontology Mapping.- Accessing and Documenting Relational Databases through OWL Ontologies.- A Formal Framework on the Semantics of Regulatory Relations and Their Presence as Verbs in Biomedical Texts.- Ontology Graphical Editor for Multilingual Document Search System.- Finding Top-k Approximate Answers to Path Queries.- Intelligent Information Extraction from Texts.- Extraction of Conditional and Causal Sentences from Queries to Provide a Flexible Answer.- Semantic Enrichment of Database Textual Attributes.- Interlingual Information Extraction as a Solution for Multilingual QA Systems.- Semantic Paraphrasing for Information Retrieval and Extraction.- Named Entity Recognition Experiments on Turkish Texts.- Advances in Fuzzy Querying: Theory and Applications.- Fuzzy Querying in Intelligent Information Systems.- Content-Based Retrieval of Audio in News Broadcasts.- Linguistic Summary-Based Query Answering on Data Cubes with Time Dimension.- About Bipolar Division Operators.- On Reaching Consensus by a Group of Collaborating Agents.- Dealing with Positive and Negative Query Criteria in Fuzzy Database Querying.- Personalization, Preferences, Context and Recommendation.- Predicting Neighbor Goodness in Collaborative Filtering.- Content-Oriented Relevance Feedback in XML-IR Using the Garnata Information Retrieval System.- Exploiting Social Tagging Profiles to Personalize Web Search.- Incremental Personalised Summarisation with Novelty Detection.- Web as a Stream.- Stream Reasoning: