The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Given a user query formulated in this interface, the system translates it i...
The Web has evolved from a global information space of linked documents to a web of linked data. The Web of Data enables answering complex, structured queries that could not be an...
In this paper we present a method of parsing unstructured textual records briefly describing a person and their direct relatives, which we use in the construction of a browsing t...
This paper proposes methodologies to control the access of B-tree-indexed data in a batch and real-time fashion. Algorithms are proposed to insert, query, delete, and rebalance B-...