In this paper, we present an extension of PHIL, a declarative language for filtering information from XML data. The proposed approach allows us to extract relevant data as well a...
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between query scores and data uncertainty ma...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking schemes in order to effectively handle user keyword search. Despite the fact that XML is a standard repr...