This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Abstract. Previous work of the authors has studied a notion of implication between sets of sequences based on the conceptual structure of a Galois lattice, and also a way of repres...
Matching dependencies were recently introduced as declarative rules for data cleaning and entity resolution. Enforcing a matching dependency on a database instance identifies the ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Solmaz Kolahi, Laks V. S. La...
There has been a great deal of interest in recent years on ranking query results in relational databases. This paper presents a novel method to rank objects (e.g., tuples) by explo...
The work presented in this paper aims to combine Latent Semantic Analysis methodology, common sense and traditional knowledge representation in order to improve the dialogue capab...
Giovanni Pilato, Agnese Augello, Giorgio Vassallo,...