We present two machine learning approaches to information extraction from semi-structured documents that can be used if no annotated training data are available, but there does ex...
Optimizing SQL subqueries has been an active area in database research and the database industry throughout the last decades. Previous work has already identified some approaches ...
We present a query-by-example audio retrieval framework by indexing audio clips in a generic database as points in a latent perceptual space. First, feature-vectors extracted from...
In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
In this article, different techniques for 'pointer swizzling" are classified and evaluated for optimizing the access to main-memory resident persistent objects. To speed ...