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VLDB
2005
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
Reynold Cheng, Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabhakar
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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...
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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Answering relationship queries on the web
Finding relationships between entities on the Web, e.g., the connections between different places or the commonalities of people, is a novel and challenging problem. Existing Web ...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Ying-li Tian
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Answering general time sensitive queries
Time is an important dimension of relevance for a large number of searches, such as over blogs and news archives. So far, research on searching over such collections has largely f...
Wisam Dakka, Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
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ICDT
2009
ACM
135views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Repair checking in inconsistent databases: algorithms and complexity
Managing inconsistency in databases has long been recognized as an important problem. One of the most promising approaches to coping with inconsistency in databases is the framewo...
Foto N. Afrati, Phokion G. Kolaitis