Sensor networks have been widely used to collect data about the environment. When analyzing data from these systems, people tend to ask exploratory questions--they want to find su...
Keyword search (KWS) over relational databases has recently received significant attention. Many solutions and many prototypes have been developed. This task requires addressing ...
Akanksha Baid, Ian Rae, Jiexing Li, AnHai Doan, Je...
In modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology and medical imaging, similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task. Especial...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Brecheisen, Peer Kr&oum...
Recent progress in information extraction has shown how to automatically build large ontologies from high-quality sources like Wikipedia. But knowledge evolves over time; facts ha...
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Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...