We propose a new approach for the efficient evaluation of XPath expressions. This is important, since XPath is not only used as a simple, stand-alone query language, but is also ...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
This paper presents a Japanese information retrieval method using the dependency relationship between words and semantic and statistical information about them. Our method gives a...
We show how (now familiar) hierarchical representations of (convex) polyhedra can be used to answer various separation queries efficiently (in a number of cases, optimally). Our e...
In this paper we describe an Information Retrieval problem called collection fusion. The collection fusion problem is to maximize the number of relevant natural language documents...
Geoffrey G. Towell, Ellen M. Voorhees, Narendra Ku...
XQuery is known to be a powerful XML query language with many bells and whistles. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the eff...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...