Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. In this paper, ...
We provide a concise yet complete formal definition of the semantics of XPath 1 and summarize efficient algorithms for processing queries in this language. Our presentation is int...
— XML stream applications bring the challenge of efficiently processing queries on sequentially accessible tokenbased data. For efficient processing of queries, we need to ensu...
Mingzhu Wei, Ming Li, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mural...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
We present the application of customized code generation to database query evaluation. The idea is to use a collection of highly efficient code templates and dynamically instantiat...