With the emergence of XML as the de facto standard to exchange and disseminate information, the problem of regulating access to XML documents has attracted a considerable attentio...
In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
We study the satisfiability problem associated with XPath in the presence of DTDs. This is the problem of determining, given a query p in an XPath fragment and a DTD D, whether or...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...
Opening up large amounts of loosely structured information for easy access and use is a complex problem. This paper describes two systems that address different aspects of the pro...