We prove that tree isomorphism is not expressible in the language (FO + TC + COUNT). This is surprising since in the presence of ordering the language captures NL, whereas tree is...
Model theoretic syntax is concerned with studying the descriptive complexity of grammar formalisms for natural languages by defining their derivation trees in suitable logical for...
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
We present Transitive Closure based visual word formation technique for obtaining robust object representations from smoothly varying multiple views. Each one of our visual words ...