This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...
Large-scale information processing applications must rapidly search through high volume streams of structured and unstructured textual data to locate useful information. Content-ba...
Query processing is one of the most, critical issues in Object-Oriented DBMSs. Extensible opt,imizers with efficient, search strategies require a cost model to select the most eff...
Georges Gardarin, Jean-Robert Gruser, Zhao-Hui Tan...
Abstract. In this paper, we present Microsearch, a search system suitable for small devices used in ubiquitous computing environments. Akin to a desktop search engine, Microsearch ...