We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
Current approaches to develop information extraction (IE) programs have largely focused on producing precise IE results. As such, they suffer from three major limitations. First, ...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Robert McCann, AnHai Do...
In recent years, there has been a prevalence of search engines being employed to find useful information in the Web as they efficiently explore hyperlinks between web pages which ...
Zhenglu Yang, Lin Li, Botao Wang, Masaru Kitsurega...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...