Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

9-2006

Abstract

Text search engines are inadequate for indexing and searching XML documents because they ignore metadata and aggregation structure implicit in the XML documents. On the other hand, the query languages supported by specialized XML search engines are very complex. In this paper, we present a simple yet flexible query language, and develop its semantics to enable intuitively appealing extraction of relevant fragments of information while simultaneously falling back on retrieval through plain text search if necessary. We also present a simple yet robust relevance ranking for heterogeneous document-centric XML.

Comments

Presented at the 16th International Foundations of Intelligent Systems Symposium, Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2006.

Attached is the unpublished, author's version of this proceeding. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11875604_23.

DOI

10.1007/11875604_23


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