Hurtado, C.A. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2009) Finding Top-k approximate answers to path queries. In: Andreasen, T. and Yager, R.R. and Bulskov, H. and Christiansen, H. and Larsen, H.L. (eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 5822. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 465-476. ISBN 9783642049569.
Abstract
We consider the problem of finding and ranking paths in semistructured data without necessarily knowing its full structure. The query language we adopt comprises conjunctions of regular path queries, allowing path variables to appear in the bodies and the heads of rules, so that paths can be returned to the user. We propose an approximate query matching semantics which adapts standard notions of approximation from string matching to graph matching. Query results are returned to the user ranked in order of increasing “distance” to the user’s original query. We show that the top-k approximate answers can be returned in polynomial time in the size of the database graph and the query.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | 8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009. Proceedings |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for, Bioinformatics, Bloomsbury Centre for (Closed), Birkbeck Knowledge Lab |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2013 13:26 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7449 |
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