The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
The main objective of an information retrieval system is to be effective in providing a user with relevant information in response to a query. However, especially given the inform...
Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...
In recent years, there has been considerable research on information extraction and constructing RDF knowledge bases. In general, the goal is to extract all relevant information f...