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XML query languages use directional path expressions to locate data in an XML data collection. They are tightly coupled to the structure of a data collection, and can fail when ev...
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Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficu...
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