It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
—This paper compares and illustrates the use of manually and automatically assigned descriptors on German documents extracted from the GIRT Corpus. A second objective is to analy...
In probabilistic databases, lineage is fundamental to both query processing and understanding the data. Current systems s.a. Trio or Mystiq use a complete approach in which the li...
an be used to abstract away from the physical reality by describing it as components that exist in discrete states with probabilistically invoked actions that change the state. The...
Duncan Gillies, David Thornley, Chatschik Bisdikia...