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practice THE NUMBER AND VARIETY of computing devices in the environment are increasing …

Most NoSQL databases are extremely painful for their users when querying data: in order to
retrieve data, users must write a program in their favorite programming language and …

Research on keyword search in database community has achieved a lot of success, and
areas of interests have been moved from keyword search in relational databases to various …

We present a seed expansion based approach to classify named entities in web search
queries. Previous approaches to this classification problem relied on contextual clues in the …

We deal with the problem of semantic annotation of free-text queries over a collection of
structured documents. In particular, we study structured documents that describe food items …

Today, business analysts and data scientists increasingly need to clean, standardize and
transform diverse data sets, such as name, address, date time, and phone number, before …

In many database applications, ranking queries may reference both text and numeric
attributes, where the ranking functions are based on both semantic distances/similarities for …

Many computer end-users, such as research scientists and business analysts, need to
frequently query a database, yet lack enough programming knowledge to write a correct …

Use of NoSQL to maintain databases has gained popularity in recent times. However,
traditional relational databases provide structured data which helps in quick response time …