Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...
We consider the problem of finding and ranking paths in semistructured data without necessarily knowing its full structure. The query language we adopt comprises conjunctions of r...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...
Query performance issues over semi-structured data have led to the emergence of materialised XML views as a means of restricting the data structure processed by a query. However p...
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...