In rapidly growing open environments such as the Internet, users experience information starvation in the midst of data overload, due to di culties similar to nding the needle in a...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) called Multilingual PRF (MultiPRF). The key idea is to harness multilinguality. Given a query in a la...
Materialized views defined over distributed data sources are a well recognized technology for modern applications. Stateof-the-art incremental view maintenance requires O(n2 ) or ...
This paper describes the evaluation of ERST, an adaptive system which is designed to improve its users' external representation (ER) selection accuracy on a range of database ...
We present an architecture for combining wikis containing hypertext with ontologies containing formal, structured information. A web-based ontology editor that supports collaborati...