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ACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval
Standard IR systems can process queries such as “web NOT internet”, enabling users who are interested in arachnids to avoid documents about computing. The documents retrieved ...
Dominic Widdows
PODS
2010
ACM
205views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
Positive higher-order queries
We investigate a higher-order query language that embeds operators of the positive relational algebra within the simply-typed λ-calculus. Our language allows one to succinctly de...
Michael Benedikt, Gabriele Puppis, Huy Vu
PODS
2009
ACM
134views Database» more  PODS 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Equivalence of nested queries with mixed semantics
We consider the problem of deciding query equivalence for a conjunctive language in which queries output complex objects composed from a mixture of nested, unordered collection ty...
David DeHaan
PODS
1992
ACM
100views Database» more  PODS 1992»
13 years 11 months ago
On the Equivalence of Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs
: We study the problem of determining whether a given recursive Datalog program is equivalent to a given nonrecursive Datalog program. Since nonrecursive Datalog programs are equiv...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Moshe Y. Vardi
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan