A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
Information integration systems provide a uniform query interface to a set of sources. One of the key challenges for an information integration system is to provide maximally comp...