As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
XML documents represent a middle range between unstructured data such as textual documents and fully structured data encoded in databases. Typically, information retrieval techniq...
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Siv...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...