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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Building search applications with Marklogic Server
Keyword search is recognized as an important technique to unlocking the information found in both structured and semistructured information. With XML as the data model and XQuery ...
Ron Avnur
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Efficient top-k algorithms for fuzzy search in string collections
An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...
Rares Vernica, Chen Li
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Do we mean the same?: disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, Peter Fankhauser
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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XML keyword query refinement
Existing works in XML keyword search have addressed the problem of finding matching results of a query. However, user input queries always contain irrelevant or mismatched terms, ...
Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng M...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Language-model-based ranking in entity-relation graphs
We propose a language-model-based ranking approach for SPARQLlike queries on entity-relationship graphs. Our ranking model supports exact matching, approximate structure matching,...
Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Generic and effective semi-structured keyword search
Current semi-structured keyword search and natural language query processing systems use ad hoc approaches to take advantage of structural information. Although intuitive, they ar...
Arash Termehchy, Marianne Winslett
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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A first study on strategies for generating workflow snippets
Juliana Freire, Lauro Didier Lins, Lena Ström...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Keyword query cleaning using hidden Markov models
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...
Ken Q. Pu
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Query segmentation using conditional random fields
A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
Xiaohui Yu, Huxia Shi
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu