on Uncertain Data (Extended Abstract) Ming Hua Jian Pei Wenjie Zhang Xuemin Lin Simon Fraser University, Canada The University of New South Wales & NICTA {mhua, jpei}@cs.sfu.c...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
The paper addresses a problem of combining XML querying with ontology reasoning. We present an extension of a rule-based XML query and transformation language Xcerpt. The extensio...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...