on Uncertain Data (Extended Abstract) Ming Hua Jian Pei Wenjie Zhang Xuemin Lin Simon Fraser University, Canada The University of New South Wales & NICTA {mhua, jpei}@cs.sfu.c...
Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
We present a method for searching databases of symbolically represented polyphonic music that exploits advantages of transportation distances such as continuity and partial matchi...