Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
A model capturing the data manipulation capabilities of a large class of methods in ohjectoriented databases is proposed and investsigated. The model uses a deterministic, paralle...
We investigate the topical structure of the set of documents used to expand a query in pseudorelevance feedback (PRF). We propose a coherence score to measure the relative topical...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
The SkyServer is an Internet portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog Archive Server. From 2001 to 2006, there were a million visitors in 3 million sessions generating 170 mi...
Vik Singh, Jim Gray, Ani Thakar, Alexander S. Szal...