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SAC
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Measuring coherence between electronic and manual annotations in biological databases
The use of controlled structured vocabularies for annotation purposes, such as the Gene Ontology (GO) is currently one of the strategies to cope with the increasingly cumbersome t...
Catia Pesquita, Daniel Faria, Francisco M. Couto
IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
224views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Tiresias: the database oracle for how-to queries
How-To queries answer fundamental data analysis questions of the form: “How should the input change in order to achieve the desired output”. As a Reverse Data Management probl...
Alexandra Meliou, Dan Suciu
VLDB
2004
ACM
113views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database
We introduce an auditing framework for determining whether a database system is adhering to its data disclosure policies. Users formulate audit expressions to specify the (sensiti...
Rakesh Agrawal, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Christos F...
VLDB
1989
ACM
87views Database» more  VLDB 1989»
15 years 8 months ago
Situation Monitoring for Active Databases
paper is concerned with ways of specifying situations and evaluating them efficiently. The techniques described in this paper were developed as part of the HiPAC (High Performance...
Arnon Rosenthal, Sharma Chakravarthy, Barbara T. B...