SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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 ...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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, ...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We propose a language-model-based ranking approach for SPARQLlike queries on entity-relationship graphs. Our ranking model supports exact matching, approximate structure matching,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
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 ...