Query rewriting is a fundamental task in query optimization and data integration. With the advent of the web, there has been renewed interest in data integration, where data is dis...
Xia Yang, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobb...
Web service composition (WSC) techniques assume that the parameters used to model the environment remain static and accurate throughout the composition's execution. However, W...
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
The UQBE is a mashup tool for non-programmers that supports query-by-example (QBE) over a schema made up by the user without knowing the schema of the original sources. Based on a...
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...