In this thesis, we harvest knowledge of two different types from online resources . The first one is commonsense knowledge, i.e. intuitive knowledge shared by most people like ``the sky is blue''. We extract salient statements from query logs and question-answering by carefully designing question patterns. Next, we validate our statements by querying other web sources such as Wikipedia, Google Books, or image tags from Flickr. We aggregate these signals to create a final score for each statement. We obtain a knowledge base, QUASIMODO, which, compared to its competitors, has better precision and captures more salient facts.The other kind of knowledge we investigate is hidden knowledge, i.e. knowledge not directly given by a data provider. Mo...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
Récemment, le « Web des documents » est devenu le « Web des données », i.e, les documents sont annot...
Commonsense knowledge about object properties, human behavior and general concepts is crucial for ro...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
Internet provides a huge amount of information at hand in such a variety of topics, that now everyon...
Internet provides a huge amount of information at hand in such a variety of topics, that now everyon...
10 pages, 6 figuresInternational audienceCommonsense knowledge about object properties, human behavi...
TutorialInternational audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic...
International audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic source,...
International audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic source,...
TutorialInternational audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
Récemment, le « Web des documents » est devenu le « Web des données », i.e, les documents sont annot...
Commonsense knowledge about object properties, human behavior and general concepts is crucial for ro...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
The hidden Web (also known as deep or invisible Web), that is, the part of the Web not directly acce...
Internet provides a huge amount of information at hand in such a variety of topics, that now everyon...
Internet provides a huge amount of information at hand in such a variety of topics, that now everyon...
10 pages, 6 figuresInternational audienceCommonsense knowledge about object properties, human behavi...
TutorialInternational audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic...
International audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic source,...
International audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic source,...
TutorialInternational audienceThe Web bears the potential of being the world's greatest encyclopedic...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
The role of Web search queries has been demonstrated in the extraction of attributes of instances an...
Récemment, le « Web des documents » est devenu le « Web des données », i.e, les documents sont annot...