@InProceedings{freydenberger_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2016.17, author = {Freydenberger, Dominik D. and Holldack, Mario}, title = {{Document Spanners: From Expressive Power to Decision Problems}}, booktitle = {19th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2016)}, pages = {17:1--17:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-002-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {48}, editor = {Martens, Wim and Zeume, Thomas}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2016.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-57867}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2016.17}, annote = {Keywords: Information extraction, document spanners, regular expressions, regex, patterns, word equations, decision problems, descriptional complexity} }