Converting a natural language query sentence into a formal database query is a major challenge. We have constructed NaLIX, a natural language interface for querying XML data. Throu...
Queries navigate semistructured data via path expressions, and can be accelerated using an index. Our solution encodes paths as strings, and inserts those strings into a special i...
Brian F. Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael J. Franklin,...
A lot of research has been conducted by the database community on methods and techniques for efficient XPath processing, with great success. Despite the progress made, significant...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...
This paper proposes a demo of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing, querying, and ranking of large collections of unstructured, semistructured, and ...