We study the design issues of data-centric XML documents where (1) there are no mixed contents, i.e., each element may have some subelements and attributes, or it may have a singl...
In recent years XML has became very popular for representing semistructured data and a standard for data exchange over the web. Mining XML data from the web is becoming increasing...
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...
Some recent initiatives try to take profit from RDF to make XML documents interoperate at the semantic level. Ontologies are used to establish semantic connections among XML langu...
This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...