As WWW becomes more and more popular and powerful, how to search information on the web in database way becomes an important research topic. COMMIX, which is developed in the DB g...
Tengjiao Wang, Shiwei Tang, Dongqing Yang, Jun Gao...
Matching dependencies (MDs) are used to declaratively specify the identification (or matching) of certain attribute values in pairs of database tuples when some similarity conditi...
Jaffer Gardezi, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Iluju Kiring...
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...
Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...