The retrieval problem is one of the main reasoning tasks for knowledge base systems. Given a knowledge base K and a concept C, the retrieval problem consists of finding all indivi...
Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for managing autonomous databases. In order to improve the performance of read-only queries, we strive to exploit user requirement...
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...