Learning XML Grammars

  • Authors:
  • Henning Fernau

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MLDM '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We sketch possible applications of grammatical inference techniques to problems arising in the context of XML. The idea is to infer document type definitions (DTDs) of XML documents in situations either when the original DTD is missing or when a DTD should be (re)designed or when a DTD should be restricted to a more user-oriented view on a subset of the (given) DTD. The usefulness of such an approach is underlined by the importance of knowing appropriate DTDs; this knowledge can be exploited, e.g., for optimizing database queries based on XML.