Cornell Database Group

Publications

Papers

C. Botev, S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram, "Expressiveness and Performance of Full-Text Search Languages", EDBT Conference, EDBT Conference, March 2006. Click here for the full version.

C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram, "Context Sensitive Search and Ranking for XML", WebDB Workshop, June 2005.

L. Guo, J. Shanmugasundaram, K. Beyer, E. Shekita, "Efficient Inverted Lists and Query Algorithms for Structured Value Ranking in Update-Intensive Relational Databases", ICDE Conference, April 2005. Click here for the full version.

F. Shao, A. Novak, J. Shanmugasundaram, "Triggers over XML Views of Relational Data", ICDE Conference, April 2005. Click here for the full version.

S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram, "TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery", WWW Conference, May 2004.

L. Guo, F. Shao, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram, "XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents", SIGMOD Conference, June 2003.

J. Qiu, F. Shao, M. Zatsman, J. Shanmugasundaram, "Index Structures for Querying the Deep Web", WebDB Workshop, June 2003.

W3C Working Drafts

S.Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, S. Buxton, P. Case, J. Doerre, D. McBeath, M. Rys, J. Shanmugasundaram. The World Wide Web Consortium XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text, W3C Working Draft, 09 July 2004.

Demonstrations

C. Botev, S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram. A TeXQuery-Based XML Full-Text Search Engine. SIGMOD 2004.

Tutorials and Panels

S. Amer-Yahia, P. Case, T. Rolekke, J. Shanmugasundaram, G. Weikum. "Report on the DB/IR Panel at SIGMOD 2005", SIGMOD Record 34(4), December 2005.

S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram. "XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities", VLDB Conference, September 2005.