on Uncertain Data (Extended Abstract) Ming Hua Jian Pei Wenjie Zhang Xuemin Lin Simon Fraser University, Canada The University of New South Wales & NICTA {mhua, jpei}@cs.sfu.c...
This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...
In decision support applications, the ability to provide fast approximate answers to aggregation queries is desirable. One commonly-used technique for approximate query answering ...
Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...