This paper proposes an approach aimed at obviating empty answers for a family of conjunctive queries involving Boolean or fuzzy value constraints. Contrary to the approaches based ...
Patrick Bosc, Carmen Brando, Allel HadjAli, H&eacu...
: Performance of Natural Language Interface often deteriorates due to linguistic phenomena of Semantic Symmetry and Ambiguous Modification (Katz and Lin, 2003). In this paper we pr...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of se...
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...