As the use of XML is rapidly growing, a growing number of users without programming skills will need to query XML data. Although designed to be easily understood by humans, XQuery...
Previous approaches in query processing do not consider queries to automatically combine results obtained from different information sources, i.e. they do not support information...
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
The integration of query languages and programming languages is still a central problem of database research. In particular, issues with respect to the impedance mismatch are of i...