EKAW
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SP...
DLOG
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
The database usability experience has shown that visual query languages tend to be superior to textual languages in many aspects. By applying this principle in the context of ontol...
VLDB
1991
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1991
ACM
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
WEBDB
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realiz...
DOOD
1995
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
1995
Springer
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
OODBS
2000
14 years 4 months ago
2000
A generic graphical query language for ODMG-compliant object databases is proposed, based on the ideas of Query-By-Example, and using UML-like diagrams as schema notation. Ease of ...
EDBTW
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We describe design and implementation of the linguistic query language DDDquery. This language aims at querying a large linguistic database storing a corpus of richly ann...
DILS
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) is a consortium that serves as a repository of ontologies that are structured like directed acyclic graphs. In this paper we present a language...
VLDB
1989
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1989
ACM
Graphical Direct Manipulation (GrDM) query languagesare characterized and positioned with respect to traditional textual query languages. After a brief survey of the current state...
FMLDO
1990
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
1990
Springer
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...