Record linkage analysis, which matches records referring to the same real world entities from different data sets, is an important task in data integration. Uncertainty often exi...
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
In an on-line statistical database, the query-answering system should prevent answers to statistical queries from leading to disclosure of confidential data. On the other hand, a s...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
In this paper we propose a new bottom-up query evaluation method for stratified deductive databases based on the Magic Set approach. As the Magic Sets rewriting may lead to unstra...