Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Discovering links between different data items in a single data source or across different data sources is a challenging problem faced by many information systems today. In partic...
While provenance has been extensively studied in the literature, the efficient evaluation of provenance queries remains an open problem. Traditional query optimization techniques...
Supporting semantic queries in relational databases is essential to many advanced applications. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applications, the need for...