In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
Traditional interactive information retrieval systems function by creating inverted lists, or term indexes. For every term in the vocabulary, a list is created that contains the d...
Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years. Most of the previous studies focus on how to answer an instant keyword query. In this paper, we focu...