Matches in ScholarlyData for { ?s ?p Query answering on a wide and heterogeneous environment such as the Web can return a large number of results that can be hardly manageable by users/agents. The adoption of grouping criteria of the results could be of great help. Up to date, most of the proposed methods for aggregating results on the (Semantic) Web are mainly grounded on syntactic approaches. However, they could not be of significant help, when the values instantiating a grouping criterion are all equal (thus creating a unique group) or when the values instantiating a grouping criterion are almost all different (thus creating one group for each answer). We propose a novel approach that is able to overcome such drawbacks, where, given a query in the form of a conjunctive query, grouping is grounded on the exploitation of the semantics of background ontologies during the aggregation of query results. Speciffically, we propose a solution where, in a deductive modality, answers are grouped taking into account the subsumption hierarchy of the underlying knowledge base. As such, the results can be showed and navigated similarly to a faceted search. An experimental evaluation of the proposed method is also reported.. }
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- 72 abstract "Query answering on a wide and heterogeneous environment such as the Web can return a large number of results that can be hardly manageable by users/agents. The adoption of grouping criteria of the results could be of great help. Up to date, most of the proposed methods for aggregating results on the (Semantic) Web are mainly grounded on syntactic approaches. However, they could not be of significant help, when the values instantiating a grouping criterion are all equal (thus creating a unique group) or when the values instantiating a grouping criterion are almost all different (thus creating one group for each answer). We propose a novel approach that is able to overcome such drawbacks, where, given a query in the form of a conjunctive query, grouping is grounded on the exploitation of the semantics of background ontologies during the aggregation of query results. Speciffically, we propose a solution where, in a deductive modality, answers are grouped taking into account the subsumption hierarchy of the underlying knowledge base. As such, the results can be showed and navigated similarly to a faceted search. An experimental evaluation of the proposed method is also reported.".