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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Eliciting single-peaked preferences using comparison queries
Voting is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. Each agent ranks all the possible alternatives, and based on this, an aggregate ranking of the alter...
Vincent Conitzer
ICADL
2003
Springer
145views Education» more  ICADL 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Web Mining of Query Translations for Cross-Language Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
This paper proposes an efficient client-server-based query translation approach to allowing more feasible implementation of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) services in ...
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jenq-Haur Wang, Lee-Feng Chien
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
360views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
NaLIX: an interactive natural language interface for querying XML
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, H. V. Jagadish
ICDT
2010
ACM
194views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
14 years 3 days ago
Bag Equivalence of XPath Queries
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
Sara Cohen, Yaacov Y. Weiss
CIDR
2007
165views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
A Black-Box Approach to Query Cardinality Estimation
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...
Tanu Malik, Randal C. Burns, Nitesh V. Chawla