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ICDT
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
Equivalence and minimization of conjunctive queries under combined semantics
The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Rada Chirkova
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Semantic link based top-K join queries in P2P networks
An important issue arising from Peer-to-Peer applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve a set of K best matching data objects from different sources while minimizi...
Jie Liu, Liang Feng, Chao He
SDB
1995
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13 years 8 months ago
A Semantics-based Approach to Design of Query Languages for Partial Information
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Leonid Libkin
TREC
2001
13 years 6 months ago
PiQASso: Pisa Question Answering System
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...
VLDB
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Pattern Tree Algebras: Sets or Sequences?
XML and XQuery semantics are very sensitive to the order of the produced output. Although pattern-tree based algebraic approaches are becoming more and more popular for evaluating...
Stelios Paparizos, H. V. Jagadish