Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
In this paper, we propose a novel compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at the group level but also detailed child-parent links at ...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Keyword search is a user-friendly mechanism for retrieving XML data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches t...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional inf...
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Anand Bhaskar, ...