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MMM
2003
Springer
152views Multimedia» more  MMM 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Semantic Video Annotation and Vague Query
The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Say what? why users choose to speak their web queries
The context in which a speech-driven application is used (or conversely not used) can be an important signal for recognition engines, and for spoken interface design. Using large-...
Maryam Kamvar, Doug Beeferman
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
148views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Combining keyword search and forms for ad hoc querying of databases
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
IR
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
ADBIS
2004
Springer
224views Database» more  ADBIS 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Using Ontologies for Database Query Reformulation
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag