Abstract. The availability of the logical structure of documents in contentoriented XML retrieval can be beneficial for users of XML retrieval systems. However, research into struc...
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
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...
The fundamental difference between standard information retrieval and XML retrieval is the unit of retrieval. In traditional IR, the unit of retrieval is fixed: it is the comple...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M. Tahagh...
Within the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) a number of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of content-oriented XML retrieval approaches were developed. Alt...
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
Offering the possibility to query any XML retrieval system in natural language would be very helpful to a lot of users. In 2005, INEX proposed a framework to partipants that wante...
Document-centric XML is a mixture of text and structure. With the increased availability of document-centric XML content comes a need for query facilities in which both structural...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...