Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
As applications within and outside the enterprise encounter increasing volumes of unstructured data, there has been renewed interest in the area of information extraction (IE) ? t...
Abstract. Recent studies have proposed structural summary techniques for pathquery evaluation on semi-structured data sources. One major line of this research
George H. L. Fletcher, Dirk Van Gucht, Yuqing Wu, ...
perception of domain concepts. We have run this experiment on the 367 645 English abstracts of PASCAL 2005-2006 bibliographic database (http://www.inist.fr) and compared the struct...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...