Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
Whereas today’s information systems are well-equipped for efficient query handling, their strict mathematical foundations hamper their use for everyday tasks. In daily life, peop...
: Each information system (or data table) leads to a hierarchy of binary relations on the object set in a natural way; these relational systems can serve as frames for the semantic...
In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
This paper describes SMES, an information extraction core system for real world German text processing. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic pow...