— Many applications offer a form-based environment for na¨ıve users for accessing databases without being familiar with the database schema or a structured query language. User...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioanni...
Analysisof a corpus of queries to a statistical database has shown considerable variation in the location and order of modifiers in complex noun phrases. Nevertheless, restriction...
Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Dan Fass, Gary Hal...
Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...
Automatically translating natural language into machine-readable instructions is one of major interesting and challenging tasks in Natural Language (NL) Processing. This problem c...
With more and more natural language text stored in databases, handling respective query predicates becomes very important. Optimizing queries with predicates includes (sub)string ...