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...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
This paper introduces a general framework for the use of translation probabilities in cross-language information retrieval based on the notion that information retrieval fundament...
Abstract. Regarding web searches, users have become used to keywordbased search interfaces due to their ease of use. However, this implies a semantic gap between the user's in...
Carlos Bobed, Raquel Trillo, Eduardo Mena, Sergio ...
We present the first complete translation of XPath into an algebra, paving the way for a comprehensive, state-of-theart XPath (and later on, XQuery) compiler based on algebraic op...
Matthias Brantner, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kan...