Converting a natural language query sentence into a formal database query is a major challenge. We have constructed NaLIX, a natural language interface for querying XML data. Throu...
This paper describes a new approach for describing contents through the use of interlinguas in order to facilitate the extraction of specific pieces of information. The authors hig...
Searchers' difficulty in formulating effective queries for their information needs is well known. Analysis of search session logs shows that users often pose short, vague quer...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Abdur Chowdhury...
We consider the problem of optimizing processing of batches of frequent itemset queries. The problem is a particular case of multiple-query optimization, where the goal is to minim...
Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej...
The paper presents a fuzzy database management system, and a fuzzy method for dominant colour description of images, on which an image retrieval system is built. The paper shows th...
Carlos D. Barranco, Juan Miguel Medina, Jesú...
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
Action rules introduced in [12] and extended further to e-action rules [21] have been investigated in [22], [13], [20]. They assume that attributes in a database are divided into t...
In this paper, we propose an image classification system employing multiple modules. The proposed system hierarchically categorizes given sports images into one of the predefined s...
Wonil Kim, Sangyoon Oh, Sanggil Kang, Dongkyun Kim