Review Comment:
This manuscript was submitted as 'full paper' and should be reviewed along the usual dimensions for research contributions which include (1) originality, (2) significance of the results, and (3) quality of writing.
The article describes a framework that, given a source query, generates a target query over a different vocabulary and assesses the quality of the target query. This second point is the most interesting aspect of the article.
The article describes an instantiation of the framework, published elsewhere (reference [23]), and includes extensive experiments to validate the instantiation. From the experiments, the authors conclude that, to construct a quality predictive model, the best features are: the similarity factor; the number of terms of the source query; and the number of terms that do not belong to the target dataset. This conclusion is relevant to the problem addressed, and quite interesting.
A detailed list of remarks follows:
Page 1, abstract, line 5: I suggest dropping the sentence “Notice that, in a real scenario, there is not a reference query”. This is quite obvious.
Page 1, abstract, line 5: It is common practice not to brake the abstract in paragraphs.
Page 3, column 1, lines 7/8: The sentence “Notwithstanding that the result set is what matters to the user.” is disconnected from the previous sentence. It would be better to separate this sentence by a comma instead of stop, as in: “… the query over the source dataset, notwithstanding that the result set is what matters to the user.”
Page 3, column 1, line -4: Change “we have filled the framework” by “we have instantiated the framework”.
Page 3, column 2: Change the title of Section 2 to “Related Work” (this is always in the singular form).
Page 4, column 1, line 2: Change “[17,2]” to “[2,17]”. In general, list the references in increasing order (there are other occurrences in the paper).
Page 4, column 2, line -6: Change “to every rule” to “to each rule”.
Page 4, column 2, line -5: Change “which associates” to “associates”.
Page 5, column 1, paragraph 3, line 3: Change “and combining properly” to “and properly combining”.
Page 5, column 2, paragraph 2, line 7: Change “and that’s the reason…” to “and that is the reason…”.
Page 9, column 1, paragraph 2, line 10: Change “BNF (Bibliothôlque National du France)” to “BNF (Bibliothèque National du France)”.
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