Standards for Structured Documents

Graph Technology for Structured Documents

In the context of integrated software engineering environments, graphs and transformations on them have proven to be a useful technology for describing the structure of and operations on documents in formal languages. We discuss ways of applying this graph technology to more general structured documents. Existing editing environments for general structured documents offer only basic structure-o...

Specifying Transformations for Structured Documents

Database Systems for Structured Documents

Documents stored in a database system can have complex internal structure described by languages such as SGML. How to take advantage of this structure presents challenges for database system implementors. We classify the types of queries that need to be supported by SGML-conformant database systems. We then describe several data models that have been proposed for representing documents in a dat...

Distributed Search for Structured Documents

The quality of search performed by a search engine can be improved by letting the user specify conditions on the information structure associated with document content. Some centralised search engines have implemented structure-aware search. However, in a distributed heterogeneous search system, structured search is more difficult. The difficulties are associated with the different structural o...

Translating Structured Documents

Machine Translation traditionally treats documents as sets of independent sentences. In many genres, however, documents are highly structured, and their structure contains information that can be used to improve translation quality. We present a preliminary approach to document translation that uses structural features to modify the behaviour of a language model, at sentence-level granularity. ...