We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...
The ability to flexibly compose confidence computation with the operations of relational algebra is an important feature of probabilistic database query languages. Computing confi...
We study the problem of answering queries posed on virtual views of XML documents, a problem commonly encountered when enforcing XML access control and integrating data. We approa...
This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...
Intelligent analysis of heterogeneous data and information sources for efficient decision support presents an interesting yet challenging task in clinical environments. This is par...
Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Peter Funk, Nin...