Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
This paper reports on refinements and extensions to the MathLang framework that add substantial support for natural language text. We show how the extended framework supports mult...
One of the key benefits of XML is its ability to represent a mix of structured and unstructured (text) data. Although current XML query languages such as XPath and XQuery can expr...
: We describe the architecture of a relational databasesystem that is extensible by user-defined data types and operations, including relation operations. The central concept is to...
The development of areas such as remote and airborne sensing, location based services, and geosensor networks enables the collection of large volumes of spatial data. These datase...