Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available ...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Abstract. The development of successful case-based design aids depends both on the CBR processes themselves and on crucial questions of integrating the CBR system into the larger t...
David B. Leake, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Ham...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
Abstract. This paper addresses the issue of simplifying natural language texts in order to ease the task of accessing factual information contained in them. We define the notion of...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu