It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
In this poster we discuss a graphical notation for representing queries for semistructured data. We try to strike a balance between expressiveness of the query language and simpli...
Andreas Harth, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Stefan Deck...
We introduce FoXQ, a visual language that would enable end users to query XML. Our aim is to develop a language that would bring a lot of the functionality of XQuery within the re...
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...