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XML Retrieval

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Content-oriented XML retrieval; Focused retrieval; Structured document retrieval; Structured text retrieval

Definition

Text documents often contain a mixture of structured and unstructured content. One way to format this mixed content is according to the adopted W3C standard for information repositories and exchanges, the eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML). In contrast to HTML, which is mainly layout-oriented, XML follows the fundamental concept of separating the logical structure of a document from its layout. This logical document structure can be exploited to allow a more focused sub-document retrieval.

XML retrieval breaks away from the traditional retrieval unit of a document as a single large (text) block and aims to implement focused retrievalstrategies aiming at returning document components, i.e., XML elements, instead of whole documents in response to a user query. This focused retrieval strategy is believed to be of particular benefit for information repositories...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Yahoo! Inc., London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Andrew Trotman

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Kamps

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Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (2018). XML Retrieval. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_474

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