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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing SQL Queries over Text Databases
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
Alpa Jain, AnHai Doan, Luis Gravano
FQAS
2004
Springer
103views Database» more  FQAS 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
A Unifying Framework for Flexible Information Access in Taxonomy-Based Sources
A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Carlo Meghini, Nicolas Spyratos
ECOI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Reasoning about taxonomies in first-order logic
Experts often disagree about the organization of biological taxa. The shifting definitions of taxonomic names complicate otherwise simple queries concerning these taxa. For examp...
David Thau, Bertram Ludäscher
VLDB
2005
ACM
175views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs
The interaction between recursion in XPATH and recursion in DTDs makes it challenging to answer XPATH queries on XML data that is stored in an RDBMS via schema-based shredding. We...
Wenfei Fan, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Hongjun Lu, Jianhua Lu,...
FOIKS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Simplification of Integrity Constraints for Data Integration
When two or more databases are combined into a global one, integrity may be violated even when each database is consistent with its own local integrity constraints. Efficient metho...
Henning Christiansen, Davide Martinenghi