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AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling and exploiting query interactions in database systems
The typical workload in a database system consists of a mixture of multiple queries of different types, running concurrently and interacting with each other. Hence, optimizing per...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, Kam...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Processing relaxed skylines in PDMS using distributed data summaries
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
Katja Hose, Christian Lemke, Kai-Uwe Sattler
ADBIS
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Using Ontologies for Database Query Reformulation
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag