We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...
Research in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing has put computational devices into many social settings while leaving intact much of the "task support and informati...
A Datalog program can be translated into a system of fixpoint equations of relational algebra; this paper studies how such a system can be solved and optimized for a particular qu...
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...