WHIRL is an extensionof relational databasesthat canperform "soft joins" basedon the similarity of textual identifiers;thesesoftjoins extendthe traditional operationof j...
With the proliferation of XML as the lingua franca of internet information exchange, engineering XML documents and maintaining their databases becomes a major challenge. In this c...
In current Semantic Web community, some researches have been done on ranking ontologies, while very little is paid to ranking vocabularies within ontology. However, finding importa...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Textual fields are commonly used in databases and applications to capture details that are difficult to formalize—comments, notes, and product descriptions. With the rise of t...