We study the problem of approximately answering aggregation queries using sampling. We observe that uniform sampling performs poorly when the distribution of the aggregated attrib...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) aims at gaining useful information quickly from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. To improve the quickness of response to qu...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...