Data unification device and method for unifying unstructured data objects and structured data objects into unified semantic objects

A system, comprising:

• a data unification device comprising:
• a retrieving entity for retrieving unstructured data objects from a number of unstructured knowledge bases and structured data objects from a number of structured knowledge bases;
• a first providing entity for providing a number of syntactic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each syntactic frame of the first providing entity comprises a syntactic concept, a syntactic concept-instance, and a syntactic concept-instance relationship;
• a second providing entity for providing a number of semantic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each syntactic frame of the second providing entity comprises a semantic concept, a semantic concept-instance, and a semantic concept-instance relationship;
• and
• an assembling entity configured to assemble, for each retrieved data object, the provided syntactic frames of the first providing entity and the provided semantic frames of the second providing entity to one semantic object;
• and
• a unified data access device for providing access to the semantic objects of the data unification device by a number of different access mechanisms.

A method for unifying unstructured data objects and structured data objects into unified semantic objects, the method comprising:

• retrieving unstructured data objects from a number of unstructured knowledge bases and structured data objects from a number of structured knowledge bases;
• providing, from a first providing entity, a number of syntactic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each semantic frame of the first providing entity comprises a syntactic concept, a syntactic concept-instance and a syntactic concept-instance relationship;
• providing, from a second providing entity, a number of semantic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each semantic frame of the second providing entity comprises a semantic concept, a semantic concept-instance, and a semantic concept-instance relationship;
• and
• assembling, for each retrieved data object, the provided syntactic frames and the provided semantic frames to one semantic object.

A computer program comprising a program code configured to execute the following when run on at least one computer:

• retrieve unstructured data objects from a number of unstructured knowledge bases and structured data objects from a number of structured knowledge bases;
• receive, from a first providing entity, a number of syntactic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each semantic frame of the first providing entity comprises a syntactic concept, a syntactic concept-instance and a syntactic concept-instance relationship;
• receive, from a second providing entity, a number of semantic frames for each retrieved data object, wherein each semantic frame of the second providing entity comprises a semantic concept, a semantic concept-instance, and a semantic concept-instance relationship;
• and
• assemble, for each retrieved data object, the provided syntactic frames and the provided semantic frames to one semantic object.