The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
The BANKS system supports keyword search on databases storing structured/semi-structured data. Answers to keyword queries are ranked, and as in IR systems, the top answers may not...
B. Aditya, Soumen Chakrabarti, Rushi Desai, Arvind...
Determining the semantic intent of web queries not only involves identifying their semantic class, which is a primary focus of previous works, but also understanding their semanti...
Search engines that support structured documents typically support structure created by the author (e.g., title, section), and may also support structure added by an annotation pr...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...