Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
We present a complete XPath cost-based optimization and execution framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency for a variety of queries and datasets. The framework i...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
Equational theories underly many elds of computing, including functional programming, symbolic algebra, theorem proving, term rewriting and constraint solving. In this paper we sh...
Mantis H. M. Cheng, Douglas Stott Parker Jr., Maar...
— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
Traditional approaches to rule-based information extraction (IE) have primarily been based on regular expression grammars. However, these grammar-based systems have difficulty scal...
Frederick Reiss, Sriram Raghavan, Rajasekar Krishn...