Event Details
A Conceptual Model and Rule-Based Query Language for the Web
Presenter: Dr. Mengchi Liu - Department of Computer Science, University of Regina - Faculty Applicant
Supervisor: R. Nigel Horspool, Chair, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, January 11, 2001
Time: 09:00:00 - 10:00:00
Place: Engineering Office Wing Building (EOW), Room # 430
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT:
Most documents available over the web conform to the HTML specification. Such documents are hierarchically structured in nature. The existing graph-based or tree-based data models for the web only provide a very low level representation of such hierarchical structure.
The first part of this talk introduces a conceptual model for the web that is able to represent the complex hierarchical structure within the web documents at a high level that is close to human conceptualization/visualization of the documents.
The second part of this talk discusses how to automatically convert HTML documents into this conceptual model.
The last part presents a rule-based language based on this conceptual model to query the Web documents, which supports not only recursion and negation, but also query result restructuring.