The database query optimizer requires the estimation of the query selectivity to find the most efficient access plan. For queries referencing multiple attributes from the same rel...
We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
This article gives ideas for developing statistics software which can work without user intervention. Some popular methods of bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation (the...
There are many emerging database applications that require accurate selectivity estimation of approximate string matching queries. Edit distance is one of the most commonly used s...