Semantics represents a major problem area for active databases inasmuch as (i) there is l framework for defining the abstract semantics of active rules, and (ii) the various syst...
The present paper outlines the Vergina speech database, which was developed in support of research and development of corpus-based unit selection and statistical parametric speech...
Virtually all histograms store for each bucket the number of distinct values it contains and their average frequency. In this paper, we question this paradigm. We start out by inv...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...