Avionics data at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) consists of distributed, unmanaged, and heterogeneous information tha...
Query rewriting is a fundamental task in query optimization and data integration. With the advent of the web, there has been renewed interest in data integration, where data is dis...
Xia Yang, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobb...
Previous works on automatic query clustering most generate a flat, un-nested partition of query terms. In this work, we are pursuing to organize query terms into a hierarchical s...
Accurate topical classification of user queries allows for increased effectiveness and efficiency in general-purpose web search systems. Such classification becomes critical if th...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
We consider how to support interactive querying over webscale data. The basic approach is to view querying as a two-phase activity: first supply a query template, and later supply...
Christopher Olston, Edward Bortnikov, Khaled Elmel...