Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...
We demonstrate a novel query interface that enables users to construct a rich search query without any prior knowledge of the underlying schema or data. The interface, which is in...
We introduce a new multimodal retrieval technique which combines query reformulation and visual image reranking in order to deal with results sparsity and imprecision, respectively...
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...
-- In this paper, we put forward our approach for answering aggregated queries over imprecise data using domain specific taxonomies. A new concept we call the weighted hierarchical...