Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
In this paper, a new indexing technique to support the query evaluation in document databases is proposed. The key idea of the method is the combination of the technique of pat-tre...
We present Avatar Semantic Search, a prototype search engine that exploits annotations in the context of classical keyword search. The process of annotations is accomplished offli...
Eser Kandogan, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Rag...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
In the current information age, the dominant method for information search is by providing few keywords to a search engine. Keyword search is currently one of the most important o...