Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
A combination of query-by-visual-example (QBVE) and semantic retrieval (SR), denoted as query-by-semantic-example (QBSE), is proposed. Images are labeled with respect to a vocabula...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J. Moren...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
In P2P systems where query initiators and information providers do not necessarily share the same ontology, semantic interoperability generally relies on ontology matching or sche...
Anthony Ventresque, Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lama...