It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Effective access to and navigation in information stored in deep Web ontological repositories or relational databases has yet to be realized due to issues with usability of user i...
Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limitedcapa...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura M. Ha...
Abstract. This paper describes CAP7, a system for searching and browsing in distributed document (metadata) collections. The system architecture is similar to Harvest, comprising g...