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Flexible query answering can be implemented in an intelligent database system by query generalization to obtain answers close to a user’s intention although not answering his query exactly. In this paper, we focus on the generalization operator “Anti-Instantiation” and investigate how syntactic similarity measures can be used to rank generalized queries with regard to their closeness to the original query.
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Wiese, L. (2013). Syntactic Similarity for Ranking Database Answers Obtained by Anti-Instantiation. In: Timm, I.J., Thimm, M. (eds) KI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8077. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40942-4_29
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