Structured Information Retrieval is gaining a lot of interest in recent years, as this kind of information is becoming an invaluable asset for professional communities such as Sof...
We give a survey over the INEX initiative, which focuses on the evaluation of content -based access to XML documents. First, we describe the test setting and the various tracks of...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
This paper gives an overview of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track. The main goals of the Ad Hoc Track were three-fold. The first goal was to investigate the impact of the collection scal...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...