In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
The need of formal verification is a problem that involves all the fields in which sensible data are managed. In this context the verification of data streams became a fundamental...
Structural summaries are data structures that preserve all structural features of XML documents in a compact form. We investigate the applicability of the most popular summaries a...
XML is the predominant format for representing structured information inside documents, but it stops at the level of files. This makes it hard to use XML-oriented tools to process...
XML (Extensible Markup Language) processing can incur significant runtime overhead in XML-based infrastructural middleware such as Web service application servers. This paper prop...