For some problems, human assistance is needed in addition to automated (algorithmic) computation. In sharp contrast to existing data management approaches, where human input is ei...
Keyword search has been recently extended to relational databases to retrieve information from text-rich attributes. However, all the existing methods focus on finding individual...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
Behind every search query is a high-level mission that the user wants to accomplish. While current search engines can often provide relevant information in response to well-speci...