Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Search and Ranking Algorithms for Locating Resources on the World Wide Web
ICDE '96 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
Merging Source Query Interfaces onWeb Databases
ICDE '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
Wise-integrator: an automatic integrator of web search interfaces for E-commerce
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
Semantic and pragmatic annotation for government information discovery, sharing and collaboration
Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government
Information Polity - Government 2.0: Making Connections between citizens, data and government
Deep web integrated systems: current achievements and open issues
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
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Recently a lot of work on integrating the search interfaces of multiple Web databases of the same domain into an integrated interface has been reported. Such integrated interfaces enable users to search multiple Web databases using one query. However, there are two potential problems when using these integrated interfaces in practice. First, if the number of domains is large, it may be difficult for users to find the correct domain. Second, the integrated interfaces can become too complicated for ordinary users to use. In this paper, we propose a system called EasyQuerier to tackle these problems. EasyQuerier allows the users to submit keyword-based queries to access theWeb databases by first mapping a keyword-based user query to a suitable domain and then translating the user query to a well-formatted query on the integrated interface of the found domain. Our experiments show that both our domain mapping and query translation techniques work very well.