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jose-Luis Ambite, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, and Guizhen Yang. Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources in the CALO Query Manager. Technical Report, August 2005; USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94087; Knowledge Systems Group, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

Abstract
We report on our experience in developing a query answering system that integrates multiple knowledge sources. The system is based on a novel architecture for combining knowledge sources in which the sources can produce new subgoals as well as ground facts in the search for answers to existing subgoals. The system uses a query planner that takes into account different query processing capabilities of individual sources and augments them gracefully. A reusable ontology provides a mediated schema that serves as the basis for integration. We have evaluated the system on a suite of test queries in a realistic application to verify the practicality of our approach.

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