Marking up search queries with linguistic annotations such as part-of-speech tags, capitalization, and segmentation, is an important part of query processing and understanding in ...
This paper explores the integration of textual and visual information for cross-language image retrieval. An approach which automatically transforms textual queries into visual rep...
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years. Most of the previous studies focus on how to answer an instant keyword query. In this paper, we focu...
Previous approaches in query processing do not consider queries to automatically combine results obtained from different information sources, i.e. they do not support information...