Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Abstract: The rise of the Web 2.0 has made content publishing easier than ever. Yesterday’s passive consumers are now active users who generate and contribute new data to the web...
We address the problem of generating a mediated schema from a set of relational data source schemas and conjunctive queries that specify where those schemas overlap. Unlike past a...
This paper reports on research on the generation of hypermedia (Web) applications for querying multimedia databases. In [5] we have proposed a heuristic algorithm for generating n...
The growing nature of databases, and the flexibility inherent in the SQL query language that allows arbitrarily complex formulations, can result in queries that take inordinate am...