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Answering Imprecise Queries over Web Databases

The rapid expansion of the World Wide Web has made a large number of databases like bibliographies, scientific databases etc. to become accessible to lay users demanding "instant gratification". Often, these users may not know how to precisely express their needs and may formulate queries that lead to unsatisfactory results.

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