Abstract. Consistent query answering (CQA) is an approach to querying inconsistent databases without repairing them first. This invited talk introduces the basics of CQA, and disc...
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for “scaling” up or down the i...
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...