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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Providing ranked relevant results for web database queries
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati
VLDB
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing
In a Web database that dynamically provides information in response to user queries, two distinct schemas, interface schema (the schema users can query) and result schema (the sch...
Jiying Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Frederick H. Lochovsky, ...
BTW
1999
Springer
129views Database» more  BTW 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Dual Retrieval in Conceptual Information Systems
Conceptual Information Systems provide a multi-dimensional conceptually structured view on data stored in relational databases. On restricting the expressiveness of the retrieval l...
Gerd Stumme
DBPL
2009
Springer
144views Database» more  DBPL 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
General Database Statistics Using Entropy Maximization
Abstract. We propose a framework in which query sizes can be estimated from arbitrary statistical assertions on the data. In its most general form, a statistical assertion states t...
Raghav Kaushik, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu
VLDB
1991
ACM
196views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
13 years 11 months ago
Kaleidoscope Data Model for An English-like Query Language
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
Sang Kyun Cha, Gio Wiederhold