Title :
The EC query language applied to old manuscripts
Author :
Vegas, Jesús ; De la Fuente, Pablo ; Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Valladolid Univ., Spain
Abstract :
We show the possibilities of the EC query language in a very structured environment as a catalog of old manuscripts. The EC language can deal with simple queries and with more complex ones, as approximate searches. We have done two classes of experiments. The first one shows that the structure does not change the statistical behaviour of the system with regard to the frequency of the words. The second kind of experiments tends to show the statistical behaviour of the database when we use different structural elements in the queries
Keywords :
document handling; programming language semantics; query languages; query processing; EC query language; approximate searches; old manuscripts; simple queries; statistical behaviour; structural elements; structured environment; word frequency; Boolean functions; Computer science; Content based retrieval; Database languages; Information retrieval; SGML; Search engines; Statistics; Web pages; Web search;
Conference_Titel :
String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, 1999 and International Workshop on Groupware
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0268-7
DOI :
10.1109/SPIRE.1999.796597
