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Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Defines a set-at-a-time region algebra for text substrings that combines pattern searches with hierarchical (nesting/ordering) queries and connects its expressiveness to the monadic first-order theory of binary trees. Shows optimization is Co-NP-hard in general (polynomial for a key fragment), identifies expressiveness gaps for some nesting/ordering properties, and proposes extensions to trade off added power against optimization complexity. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1043
Venue
PODS
Year
1995
Pagerank
5.6294569e-05
Overall Rank
5,198 | 63.88%
DOI
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393 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024506032
467 Querying and Updating the File* 1993 VLDB 0.00022431377
919 Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text 1987 VLDB 0.00015283347
2,296 The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data 1993 VLDB 9.0814726e-05
2,572 Optimizing Queries on Files 1994 SIGMOD 8.5141353e-05
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