Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Nowadays, searches for the web pages of a person with a given name constitute a notable fraction of queries to Web search engines. Such a query would normally return web pages rela...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Zhaoqi Chen, Sharad Mehrotr...
Hyper-Text Structured Query Language (HTSQL) is a standardizable middleware component that translates a HTTP request into an SQL query, performs the query against a relational dat...
Abstract. We present a novel, simple, unsupervised method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between nouns in noun-noun compounds. The main idea is to discover pre...
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...