The data allocation problem in incomplete information environments consisting of self-motivated servers responding to users' queries is considered. Periodically, the servers ...
This paper explores an inherent tension in modeling and querying uncertain data: simple, intuitive representations of uncertain data capture many application requirements, but the...
Anish Das Sarma, Omar Benjelloun, Alon Y. Halevy, ...
The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
PowerAqua1 is a Question Answering system, which takes as input a natural language query and is able to return answers drawn from relevant semantic resources found anywhere on the...
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria S. Uren, Marta Sabou, Enri...