Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
Abstract. We describe design and implementation of the linguistic query language DDDquery. This language aims at querying a large linguistic database storing a corpus of richly ann...
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
Background: Existing sequence alignment algorithms assume that similarities between DNA or amino acid sequences are linearly ordered. That is, stretches of similar nucleotides or ...
Many applications operate on time-sensitive data. Some of these data are only valid for certain intervals (e.g., job-assignments, versions of software code), others describe tempor...