In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
This paper presents a probabilistic relational modelling (implementation) of the major probabilistic retrieval models. Such a high-level implementation is useful since it supports ...
Hyper-Text Structured Query Language (HTSQL) is a standardizable middleware component that translates a HTTP request into an SQL query, performs the query against a relational dat...
In a binary symmetric relationship, A is related to B if and only if B is related to A. Symmetric relationships between k participating entities can be represented as multisets of...
We give a denotational semantics to a region-based effect system tracking reading, writing and allocation in a higher-order language with dynamically allocated integer references....
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Lennart Beringer, Mar...