If INEX Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

The INEX query languages allow the extraction of fragments from selected documents. This power is not much used in INEX queries. The paper suggests reasons why, and considers which kind of document collection this feature might be useful for. 1 What is the INEX Answer? INEX [1–3] is all about extracting information from XML document collections. We can distinguish four kinds of IR-like query for semi-structured data: CO Content Only—a classical information retrieval query to select a document from a collection of documents based on the occurrence of terms and phrases anywhere within it. Example: “find all documents mentioning ‘Malacostraca’ and ‘Edgar Allen Poe’.” CC Content-in-Context—a combination of contexts (paths) and CO queries to apply in those contexts, used to select documents from a collection of documents. Queries like this have been around almost as there have been SGML collections to search in. Example: “find all documents where author mentions ‘Edg...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: INEX
• Authors: Richard A. O'Keefe
• Keywords: Document, INEX, INEX 2004, INEX Query Languages, Information Management