Query automata

Abstract
A main task in document transformation and information retrievalis locating subtrees satisfying some pattern. Therefore, unary queries,i.e., queries that map a tree to a set of its nodes, play an importantrole in the context of structured document databases. We want to understandhow the natural and well-studied computation model of treeautomata can be used to compute such queries. We dene a queryautomaton (QA) as a deterministic two-way nite automaton overtrees that has the...

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