Edit distance between XML and probabilistic XML documents

  • Authors:
  • Ruiming Tang;Huayu Wu;Sadegh Nobari;Stéphane Bressan

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, National University of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore;Center for Maritime Studies

  • Venue:
  • DEXA'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Database and expert systems applications - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Probabilistic XML is a hierarchical data model capturing uncertainty of both value and structure. The ability to compute the similarity between an XML document and a probabilistic XML document is a building block of many applications involving querying, comparison, alignment and classification, for instance. The new challenge in efficiently computing such similarity is the multiplicity of the possible worlds represented by a probabilistic XML document. We devise and discuss an algorithm for the efficient computation of the similarity between an XML document and a probabilistic XML document. We empirically and comparatively evaluate the performance of the algorithm and its variants.