For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Abstract. When querying XML collections, users cannot always express their need in a precise way. Systems should therefore support vagueness at both the content and structural leve...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
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...