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PODS
2002
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Languages for Web Information Extraction
Research on information extraction from Web pages (wrapping) has seen much activity in recent times (particularly systems implementations), but little work has been done on formal...
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch
CORR
2004
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Finite-Tree Analysis for Constraint Logic-Based Languages: The Complete Unabridged Version
Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occ...
Roberto Bagnara, Roberta Gori, Patricia M. Hill, E...
STACS
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A Logical Approach to Decidability of Hierarchies of Regular Star-Free Languages
We propose a new, logical, approach to the decidability problem for the Straubing and Brzozowski hierarchies based on the preservation theorems from model theory, on a theorem of ...
Victor L. Selivanov
ICALP
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
On the Power of Tree-Walking Automata
Abstract. Tree-walking automata (TWAs) recently received new attention in the fields of formal languages and databases. Towards a better understanding of their expressiveness, we c...
Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick
DLT
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Subshifts, Languages and Logic
We study the Monadic Second Order (MSO) Hierarchy over infinite pictures, that is tilings. We give a characterization of existential MSO in terms of tilings and projections of tili...
Emmanuel Jeandel, Guillaume Theyssier