Existing encoding schemes and index structures proposed for XML query processing primarily target the containment relationship, specifically the parent
We are experiencing an unprecedented increase of content contributed by users in forums such as blogs, social networking sites and microblogging services. Such abundance of conten...
Finding relationships between entities on the Web, e.g., the connections between different places or the commonalities of people, is a novel and challenging problem. Existing Web ...
Querying data from presentation formats like HTML, for purposes such as information extraction, requires the consideration of tree structures as well as the consideration of spati...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....