Abstract. Conjunctive query answering plays a prominent role in applications of description logics (DLs) that involve instance data, but its exact complexity was a long-standing op...
In this paper, we formulate a class of colored range query problems to model the multi-dimensional range queries in the presence of categorical information. By applying appropriate...
In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that ...
We present BAYESUM (for "Bayesian summarization"), a model for sentence extraction in query-focused summarization. BAYESUM leverages the common case in which multiple do...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...