We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as t...
This paper proposes an efficient client-server-based query translation approach to allowing more feasible implementation of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) services in ...
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, ...
Bar charts and pie charts are traditional ways of displaying trends and proportions in a data set. However, static charts don't scale well. We introduce a technique which doe...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...