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As XML is about to become the standard format for structured documents, there is an increasing need for appropriate information retrieval (IR) methods. Since classical IR methods were developed for unstructured documents only, the logical markup of XML documents poses new challenges.
Since XML supports logical markup of texts both at the macro level (structuring markup for chapter, section, paragraph and so on) and the micro level (e.g., MathML for mathematical formulas, CML for chemical formulas), retrieval methods dealing with both kinds of markup should be developed. At the macro level, fulltext retrieval should allow for selection of appropriate parts of a document in response to a query, such as by returning a section or a paragraph instead of the complete document. At the micro level, specific similarity operators for different types of text or data should be provided (such as similarity of chemical structures, phonetic similarity for person names).
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Fuhr, N., Großjohann, K., Kriewel, S. (2003). A Query Language and User Interface for XML Information Retrieval. In: Blanken, H., Grabs, T., Schek, HJ., Schenkel, R., Weikum, G. (eds) Intelligent Search on XML Data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2818. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45194-5_4
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