Code
01SF2612
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Computer architecture and networks
- Distributed computing
- Information sciences
- Information systems
- Programming languages
- Scientific computing
- Theoretical computer science
- Visual computing
- Other information and computing sciences
Keywords
databases
coreference
knowledge extraction
metadata
Project description
Database systems allow to model information in a well-structured manner. Unfortunately, many databases cope with quality problems. A significant problem is the existence of coreferent data, which means that the same real world entity is described multiple times within one database. Due to errors, inaccuracies and a lack of standardization, coreferent data are not bound to be equal, which makes the finding of coreferent data a challenging topic. In this project it is studied how metadata can help to extract semantic knowledge which can be used to improve the detection of coreferent database objects.