Although keyword query enables inexperienced users to easily search XML database with no specific knowledge of complex structured query languages or XML data schemas, the ambigui...
Declarative data quality has been an active research topic. The fundamental principle behind a declarative approach to data quality is the use of declarative statements to realize...
Amit Chandel, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Nick Koudas, Moha...
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...
We introduce the problem of repetitive nearest neighbor search in relevance feedback and propose an efficient search scheme for high dimensional feature spaces. Relevance feedback...