The wide acceptance and rapidly growing use of XML as a standard storage and retrieval data format blurs the historical divide that exists between Information Retrieval and Database Retrieval. On the structured database retrieval side it is now possible to support highly structured access to documents using XML specific tools such as XPath, XQuery, XQL and more. On the information retrieval sid...

We describe an approach to grapheme to phoneme conver sion which is both language independent and data oriented Given a set of examples spelling words with their associated phonetic representation in a language a grapheme to phoneme conversion system is automatically pro duced for that language which takes as its input the spelling of words and produces as its output the phonetic transcription ...

This paper discusses the issues in amalgamating multiple programming paradigms in the logic programming language, Prolog. It is shown that multiple paradigms can be incorporated without disturbing logic programming language features and efficiency. It also introduces a new programming paradigm called the relation-oriented paradigm. The research results are reflected in the implementation of the...

Aspect-oriented programming languages usually are extensions of object-oriented ones, and their compilation target is usually the (virtual) machine model of the language they extend. While that model elegantly supports core object-oriented language mechanisms such as virtual method dispatch, it provides no direct support for core aspectoriented language mechanisms such as advice application. He...