The Polylog framework is designed to provide a language for efficiently automating complex queries of information represented in multiple formats. A Polylog program contains a set...
Traditional adaptive filtering systems learn the user’s interests in a rather simple way – words from relevant documents are favored in the query model, while words from irre...
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Nowadays XML is universally accepted as the standard for structural data representation; XML databases, providing structural querying support, are thus becoming more and more popul...
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...