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XML retrieval

Documents usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark-up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark-up...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lalmas, Mounia.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Series:Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online), # 7.
Subjects:
XML (Document markup language)
Online Access:Abstract with links to full text
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Basic XML concepts
  • Element
  • Well-formed XML document
  • Document type declaration
  • XML schema
  • XML documents as trees
  • Historical perspectives
  • Structured document retrieval
  • Passage retrieval
  • Structured text retrieval
  • Hypertext and web retrieval
  • Data- vs document-centric XML documents
  • Querying semi-structured data
  • Content-oriented XML retrieval
  • INitiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX)
  • Focused retrieval
  • Query languages
  • Structural constraints
  • Classification of XML query languages
  • Content-only
  • Content-and-structure
  • Examples of XML query languages
  • XPath
  • NEXI
  • XQuery
  • XQuery full-text
  • Discussion
  • Indexing strategies
  • Element-based indexing
  • Leaf-only indexing
  • Aggregation-based indexing
  • Selective indexing
  • Distributed indexing
  • Structure indexing
  • Discussion
  • Ranking strategies
  • Element scoring
  • Contextualization
  • Propagation
  • Aggregation
  • Merging
  • Processing structural constraints
  • Discussion
  • Presentation strategies
  • Dealing with overlaps
  • Presenting elements in context
  • Entry points
  • Discussion
  • Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness
  • Document collections
  • Topics
  • Relevance assessments
  • Retrieval tasks
  • Measures
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • XML element retrieval
  • Beyond XML element retrieval
  • Beyond XML retrieval
  • Bibliography
  • Biography.

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