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query
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈkwɪəri/us
to express doubt about something or ask for more information:
Someone in the accounts department had queried his expense claim.
The Revenue is unlikely to query such an arrangement unless the sums are particularly large in relation to your income.
query whether/why/howHe queries whether there is really sufficient demand to warrant another model.

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Other locutions exist allowing agents to express proposals for action, acceptance and rejection of proposals, make various queries about time and place, and so on.
In addition, it is also very difficult to predict what evidence to combine for different collections or queries.
On request, the collected constraints on a par t can be folded into queries that retrieve candidates.
A second experiment was run, using the same queries and same test collection, in which experimental subjects were asked to select expansion terms.
The knowledge-enhanced searching of captioned information module permits making queries about images using their captions in natural language.
Note that when constructing these queries, the relevance judgments were not referred to this time.
The results may also be indexed by a search engine, which may then be used to process queries.
The manually evaluated material amounts to 410 randomly picked compound queries, resulting in 3.367 hits.
However, they are in fact extremely inconvenient for automatic analysis and is thus a poor candidate as an abstract representation of queries.
The sample, constrained by the ontology, is asserted into a knowledge base which is continually queried for evidence of an intrusion or an attack.
A logic engine typically has facts asserted, and queries requested, in a fairly ordered sequence.
Let us now formally provide a way of "collecting" all the adorned predicates generated by the rewriting of queries.
The latter work handles more general queries and achieves completeness with a certain restriction on types that ensures splitting to be finite.
The predicates are fuzzy sets that represent the degree of membership of terms to documents and queries.
The main strength of best-match models is that they allow for iterative improvement, often using similar techniques to retrieve documents as to modify queries.
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