Learning deterministic regular expressions for the inference of schemas from XML data

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 825-834

  Bex, Geert Jan ^a   Gelade, Wouter ^a   Neven, Frank ^a   Vansummerent, Stijn ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Regular expressions; Schema inference; XML

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); INTERNET; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MINERALS; ORES; TURBULENT FLOW; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

ALPHABET SYMBOLS; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTHS; POSITIVE EXAMPLES; PROBABILISTIC ALGORITHMS; REAL WORLDS; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SCHEMA INFERENCE; SCHEMAS; SYNTHETIC DATUMS; XML DATUMS; XML DOCUMENTS; XML SCHEMA DEFINITIONS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 56649124711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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