: Entities in engineering design databases need to evolve in both structure and behavior. Such a need is not well addressed by object-oriented data models based on the class concep...
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
We propose a distribution-based pruning of n-gram backoff language models. Instead of the conventional approach of pruning n-grams that are infrequent in training data, we prune n...
Regular Expressions (REs) form the basis of most XML type languages, such as DTDs, XML Schema types, and XDuce types (Thompson et al. 2004; Hosoya and Pierce 2003). In this contex...
Abstract: In this paper we describe a flexible, portable and languageindependent infrastructure for setting up large monolingual language corpora. The approach is based on collecti...
Christian Biemann, Stefan Bordag, Gerhard Heyer, U...