Day |
Readings |
Presenter |
1/05 |
Introduction, overview and assignment of presenters. |
Dan Suciu
|
1/12 |
Adding relevance to the query answers analogous to the ranking in Information Retrieval
Goldman, Shivakumar, Venkatsubramanian, Garcia-Molina. Proximity Searches in Databases. VLDB, 1998.
Agrawal, Chaudhari, Das, Gionis. Automated Ranking of Database Query results. CIDR, 2003.
|
Chris
Stebbi
|
1/19 |
Martin Luther King Day. No Class |
1/26 |
Keywords-based searches in relational databases
Hristidis, Papakonstantinou. DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases. VLDB, 2002.
Theobald, Weikum. The Index-Based XXL Search Engine for Querying XML Data with Relevance Ranking. EDT, 2002.
|
Igor
Luna
|
2/02 |
Approximate searches in XML data: The first paper talks about a
rich semantic language for approximate querying. The second paper
describes keyword searches in XML
Agrawal, Chaudhari, Das. DBExplorer: A System for Keyword-Based Search over Relational Databases. ICDE, 2002.
Guo, Shao, Botev, Shanmugasundaram. XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents. SIGMOD, 2003.
|
Michael
Jessica
|
2/09 |
Database Models: Representating imprecision/uncertainity in databases
Fuhr, Rolleke. A Probabilistic Relational Algebra for Imprecision in Databases. TIS, 1997.
Gradel, Gurevich, HirschThe Complexity of Query Reliability. PODS, 1998.
Only the first three pages (Upto Section 3)
|
Peter Mork
Luke
|
2/16 |
Presidents Day. No Class |
2/23 |
Fuzzy Databases
Fagin. Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems. PODS, 1998.
Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, Moni Naor Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware.
PODS, 2001. (There is also a more elaborate, journal version of this paper that appeared in JCSS, 2003)
|
Mike
Ashish
|
3/01 |
W. Cohen. Integration of Heterogenous Databases Without Common Domain Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity.. SIGMOD, 1998.
Natural Language Interface to Queries
|
Bhushan
Ana Maria
|
3/08 |
Efficiently Answering Queries on Probabilistic Databases
|
Nilesh Dalvi |