Traditional indexes aim at optimizing the node accesses during query processing, which, however, does not necessarily minimize the total cost due to the possibly large number of r...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
Abstract. Nowadays, the demand on querying and searching the Semantic Web is increasing. Some systems have adopted IR (Information Retrieval) approaches to index and search the Sem...
Yan Liang, Haofen Wang, Qiaoling Liu, Thanh Tran, ...
This paper describes the online demo of the QuALiM Question Answering system. While the system actually gets answers from the web by querying major search engines, during presenta...
Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. In this paper, ...