Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...
In data integration systems there is a problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between source schemas and the target schema, and given that th...
Query processing techniques for XML data have focused mainly on tree-pattern queries (TPQs). However, the need for querying XML data sources whose structure is very complex or not...
One issue involved in accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources is how to integrate the retrieved data. SIMS, an information mediator, handles this problem by mapping t...
Sources of training data suitable for language modeling of conversational speech are limited. In this paper, we show how training data can be supplemented with text from the web ï...