A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Knowledge compilation [6, 5, 14, 8] consists in transforming a problem offline into a form which is tractable online. In this paper, we introduce new structures, based on the notio...
Abstract. The Ambient Logic (AL) has been proposed for expressing properties of process mobility in the calculus of Mobile Ambients (MA), and as a basis for query languages on semi...
Many real-world data are maintained in relational format, with different tables storing information about entities and their links or relationships. The structure (schema) of the ...
Oliver Schulte, Hassan Khosravi, Flavia Moser, Mar...
In this paper, we describe our experiences in building and evolving an XQuery engine with a focus on data and service federation use cases. The engine that we discuss is a core co...
Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey,...