XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
Electronic product catalogs are considered as one of the main components of e-commerce applications. Efficient processing of queries on product catalogs is important for customer ...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...
XML documents are extremely verbose since the "schema" is repeated for every "record" in the document. While a variety of compressors are available to address ...