The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
Semantic query optimization can dramatically speed up database query answering by knowledge intensive reformulation. But the problem of how to learn required semantic rules has no...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
In this paper we introduce generalized projections (GPs), an extension of duplicateeliminating projections, that capture aggregations, groupbys, duplicate-eliminating projections ...
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...