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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.11
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119355
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2020/11935/
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Freydenberger, Dominik D. ; Thompson, Sam M.

Dynamic Complexity of Document Spanners

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Abstract

The present paper investigates the dynamic complexity of document spanners, a formal framework for information extraction introduced by Fagin, Kimelfeld, Reiss, and Vansummeren (JACM 2015). We first look at the class of regular spanners and prove that any regular spanner can be maintained in the dynamic complexity class DynPROP. This result follows from work done previously on the dynamic complexity of formal languages by Gelade, Marquardt, and Schwentick (TOCL 2012).
To investigate core spanners we use SpLog, a concatenation logic that exactly captures core spanners. We show that the dynamic complexity class DynCQ is more expressive than SpLog and therefore can maintain any core spanner. This result is then extended to show that DynFO can maintain any generalized core spanner and that DynFO is more powerful than SpLog with negation.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{freydenberger_et_al:LIPIcs:2020:11935,
  author =	{Dominik D. Freydenberger and Sam M. Thompson},
  title =	{{Dynamic Complexity of Document Spanners}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-139-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{155},
  editor =	{Carsten Lutz and Jean Christoph Jung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/11935},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119355},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Document spanners, information extraction, dynamic complexity, descriptive complexity, word equations}
}

Keywords: Document spanners, information extraction, dynamic complexity, descriptive complexity, word equations
Collection: 23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)
Issue Date: 2020
Date of publication: 11.03.2020
Supplementary Material: Video of the Presentation: https://doi.org/10.5446/46831

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