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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank query reformulations
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
APWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Improving XML Query Performance Using Social Classes
In a state-of-the-art XML database, an XML query is evaluated as a sequence of structural joins in which positions of data nodes are used to perform each individual structural joi...
Weining Zhang, Douglas Pollok
ICDT
2009
ACM
173views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
14 years 12 months ago
Containment of conjunctive queries on annotated relations
We study containment and equivalence of (unions of) conjunctive queries on relations annotated with elements of a commutative semiring. Such relations and the semantics of positiv...
Todd J. Green
COLT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning Threshold Functions with Small Weights Using Membership Queries
We study the learnability of Threshold functions with bounded weights using membership queries only. We show that the class Ct of Threshold functions with positive integer weights...
Elias Abboud, Nader Agha, Nader H. Bshouty, Nizar ...
VLDB
2007
ACM
121views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
TRAX - Real-World Tracking of Moving Objects
A range of mobile services rely on knowing the current positions of populations of so-called moving objects. In the ideal setting, the positions of all objects are known always an...
Christian S. Jensen, Stardas Pakalnis