Effective XML Keyword Search with Relevance Oriented Ranking

Abstract-- Inspired by the great success of information retrieval (IR) style keyword search on the web, keyword search on XML has emerged recently. The difference between text database and XML database results in three new challenges: (1) Identify the user search intention, i.e. identify the XML node types that user wants to search for and search via. (2) Resolve keyword ambiguity problems: a keyword can appear as both a tag name and a text value of some node; a keyword can appear as the text values of different XML node types and carry different meanings. (3) As the search results are sub-trees of the XML document, new scoring function is needed to estimate its relevance to a given query. However, existing methods cannot resolve these challenges, thus return low result quality in term of query relevance. In this paper, we propose an IR-style approach which basically utilizes the statistics of underlying XML data to address these challenges. We first propose specific guidelines that a ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Bo Chen, Jiaheng Lu
• Keywords: Database, ICDE 2009, Search Intention Identification, Style Keyword Search, User Search Intention, XML Keyword Search, XML Node Types