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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
NAGA: harvesting, searching and ranking knowledge
The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting Similarity Operations Based on Approximate String Matching on the Web
Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...
Eike Schallehn, Ingolf Geist, Kai-Uwe Sattler
VLDB
1997
ACM
94views Database» more  VLDB 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Vasilis Vassalos, Yannis Papakonstantinou
PODS
2001
ACM
167views Database» more  PODS 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
Querying Websites Using Compact Skeletons
Several commercial applications, such as online comparison shopping and process automation, require integrating information that is scattered across multiple websites or XML docum...
Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ullman