This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
Most RDF query languages allow for graph structure search through a conjunction of triples which is typically processed using join operations. A key factor in optimizing joins is ...
Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Pau...
Many real-world data are maintained in relational format, with different tables storing information about entities and their links or relationships. The structure (schema) of the ...
Oliver Schulte, Hassan Khosravi, Flavia Moser, Mar...
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...