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Document Spanners — A Brief Overview of Concepts, Results, and Recent Developments

Summary: Survey of the document spanners framework (formalising AQL/SystemT) and its theoretical foundations—expressiveness (regex formulas, core spanners), complexity, and algebraic properties. Highlights recent advances in enumeration, containment, extensions, and connections to automata and logic. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1891
Venue
PODS
Year
2022
Pagerank
5.3483178e-05
Overall Rank
8,923 | 38.79%
DOI
10.1145/3517804.3526069

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@inproceedings{schmid_pods22,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '22},
        title = {{Document Spanners — A Brief Overview of Concepts, Results, and Recent Developments}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517804.3526069},
        doi = {10.1145/3517804.3526069},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Schmid, Markus L. and Schweikardt, Nicole},
        year = {2022}
}

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