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VLDB
2005
ACM
105views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly
The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. Helping users query alternative “deep Web” sources in ...
Zhen Zhang, Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
ICDE
2009
IEEE
170views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
14 years 9 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
ICDT
2010
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Foundations of SPARQL Query Optimization
We study fundamental aspects related to the efficient processing of the SPARQL query language for RDF, proposed by the W3C to encode machine-readable information in the Semantic W...
Michael Schmidt, Michael Meier, Georg Lausen
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
96views Database» more  DASFAA 2009»
14 years 20 days ago
A Revisit of Query Expansion with Different Semantic Levels
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
Ce Zhang, Bin Cui, Gao Cong, Yu-Jing Wang