This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
It is a fact that many XML query languages lack support for update operations. Those that have minimal support do not concern with preserving documents' constraints, and cons...
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Our analysis of crosscutting concerns in real-life software systems (totaling over 500,000 LOC) and in reports from literature indicated a number of properties that allow for thei...
In this paper, we propose to extend XQuery - the XML query language - with a set of transformation operators which will produce a copy of an XML tree in which some subtrees will b...
Emmanuel Bruno, Jacques Le Maitre, Elisabeth Muris...