Abstract. We study predicate selection functions (also known as splitting rules) for structural decision trees and propose two improvements to existing schemes. The first is in cl...
Filtering queries are widely used in data stream applications. As more and more filtering queries are registered in high-speed data stream management system, the processing efficie...
This paper describes the implementation of a system that automatically learns selectional restrictions for individual senses of polysemous verbs from subject-object relationships....
In this paper we present a novel, customizable IE paradigm that takes advantage of predicate-argument structures. We also introduce a new way of automatically identifying predicat...
Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda M. Harabagiu, John Williams,...
Selectivity estimation of path expressions in querying XML data plays an important role in query optimization. A path expression may contain multiple branches with predicates, each...