Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
As large-scale databases become commonplace, there has been signi cant interest in mining them for commercial purposes. One of the basic tasks that underlies many of these mining ...
: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing and querying large collections of unstructured, semistructured...
Graph-theoretic aggregation problems have been considered both in OLAP (grid graph) and XML (tree). This paper gives new results for MIN aggregation in a tree, where we want the M...