Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
The automatic extraction of information from unstructured sources has opened up new avenues for querying, organizing, and analyzing data by drawing upon the clean semantics of str...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
User queries on extensible markup language (XML) documents are typically expressed as regular path expressions. A variety of indexing techniques for efficiently retrieving the re...
We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...