The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Complex search tasks that utilize information from several data sources, are answered by integrating the results of distinct basic search queries. In such integration, each basic ...
Maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views inside or outside the database, is a novel, feasible and efficient approach to accelerate XML query processing. However, th...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Lizh...
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...