Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Finding all the occurrences of a twig pattern on multiple elements in an XML document is a core operation for efficient evaluation of XML queries. Holistic twig join algorithms, Tw...
There is a significant need for data integration capabilities in the scientific domain, which has manifested itself as products in the commercial world as well as academia. Howeve...
Brenton Louie, Landon Detwiler, Nilesh N. Dalvi, R...
The domain-specific track uses test collections from the social science domain to test monolingual and cross-language retrieval in structured bibliographic databases. Special atte...
Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch, Maximilian Stempfh...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...