We describe the University of Amsterdam’s participation in the INEX 2005 Interactive Track, mainly focusing on a comparative experiment, in which the baseline system Daffodil/HyR...
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...
As the number of components in XML documents is much larger than that of ‘flat’ documents, we believe it is essential to provide users of XML information retrieval systems wi...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
Tree patterns with full text search form the core of both XQuery Full Text and the NEXI query language. On such queries, users expect a relevance-ranked list of XML elements as an...