Preference-based search is the problem of finding an item that matches best with a user's preferences. User studies show that example-based tools for preference-based search c...
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. Highly heterogeneous XML collections are thematic collections exploiting different structures: the parent-child or ancestor-descendant relationships are not preserved and...
Ismael Sanz, Marco Mesiti, Giovanna Guerrini, Rafa...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...
In focused XML retrieval, information retrieval systems have to find out which are the most appropriate retrieval units and return only these to the user, avoiding overlapping elem...