The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
We consider the problem of indexing general database workloads (combinations of data sets and sets of potential queries). We dene a framework for measuring the eciency of an ind...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos...
As data of an unprecedented scale are becoming accessible, skyline queries have been actively studied lately, to retrieve “interesting” data objects that are not dominated by a...
Supervised approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) have been shown to outperform other approaches but are hampered by reliance on labeled training examples (the data acquisi...
Hierarchical taxonomies are used to organize and retrieve information in many domains, especially those dealing with large and rapidly growing amounts of information. In many of t...