Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
xml keyword search provides a simple and user-friendly way of retrieving data from xml databases, but the ambiguities of keywords make it difficult to effectively answer keyword qu...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
Abstract In this paper we present a new rule-based approach for consistency preserving view updating in deductive databases. Based on rule transformations performed during schema d...