Designing and evaluating an XPath dialect for linguistic queries

Steven Bird; Yi Chen; Susan B. Davidson; Haejoong Lee; Yifeng Zheng

doi:10.1109/ICDE.2006.48

Designing and evaluating an XPath dialect for linguistic queries

Steven Bird, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Haejoong Lee, Yifeng Zheng

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Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for linguistic data and queries. However, several important expressive features required for linguistic queries are missing or hard to express in XPath. In this paper, we motivate and illustrate these features with a variety of linguistic queries. Then we propose extensions to XPath to support linguistic queries, and design an efficient query engine based on a novel labeling scheme. Experiments demonstrate that our language is not only sufficiently expressive for linguistic trees but also efficient for practical usage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2006.48
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06 - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: 3 Apr 2006 → 7 Apr 2006

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Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume	2006
ISSN (Print)	1084-4627

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Conference	22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, GA
Period	3/04/06 → 7/04/06

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Bird, S, Chen, Y, Davidson, SB, Lee, H & Zheng, Y 2006, Designing and evaluating an XPath dialect for linguistic queries. in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06., 1617420, Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, vol. 2006, 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06, Atlanta, GA, United States, 3/04/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2006.48

Designing and evaluating an XPath dialect for linguistic queries. / Bird, Steven; Chen, Yi; Davidson, Susan B. et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06. 2006. 1617420 (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering; Vol. 2006).

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