The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Clinical medical records contain a wealth of information, largely in free-text form. Means to extract structured information from free-text records is an important research endeav...
Xiaohua Zhou, Hyoil Han, Isaac Chankai, Ann Prestr...
We propose the study of visibly pushdown automata (Vpa) for processing XML documents. Vpas are pushdown automata where the input determines the stack operation, and XML documents ...
In Web 2.0, users have generated and shared massive amounts of resources in various media formats, such as news, blogs, audios, photos and videos. The abundance and diversity of t...
Chen Liu, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, Dongx...
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...