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IPM
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Managing structured queries in probabilistic XML retrieval systems
Focusing on the context of XML retrieval, in this paper we propose a general methodology for managing structured queries (involving both content and structure) within any given st...
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, ...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Specificity Aboutness in XML Retrieval
This paper presents a theoretical methodology to evaluate filters in XML retrieval. Theoretical evaluation is concerned with the formal investigation of qualitative properties of r...
Tobias Blanke, Mounia Lalmas
JODL
2007
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13 years 12 months ago
Examining topic shifts in content-oriented XML retrieval
Abstract. Content-oriented XML retrieval systems support access to XML repositories by retrieving, in response to user queries, XML document components (XML elements) instead of wh...
Elham Ashoori, Mounia Lalmas, Theodora Tsikrika
TOIS
2008
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13 years 12 months ago
Sound and complete relevance assessment for XML retrieval
In information retrieval research, comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections consisting of documents, user requests and relevance assessments. Obtaining relevance a...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
RIAO
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Effectiveness of Rich Document Representation in XML Retrieval
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built with different goals in mind. Some IR systems target high precision that is to have more relevant documents on the first page of their...
Fahimeh Raja, Mostafa Keikha, Maseud Rahgozar, Far...
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Feature- and Query-Based Table of Contents Generation for XML Documents
The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searche...
Zoltán Szlávik, Anastasios Tombros, ...
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Topic Shifts for Focussed Access to XML Repositories
Abstract. In focussed XML retrieval, a retrieval unit is an XML element that not only contains information relevant to a user query, but also is specific to the query. INEX defin...
Elham Ashoori, Mounia Lalmas
DELOS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
INEX 2002 - 2006: Understanding XML Retrieval Evaluation
Evaluating the effectiveness of XML retrieval requires building test collections where the evaluation paradigms are provided according to criteria that take into account structural...
Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros
AIRS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On Effectiveness Measures and Relevance Functions in Ranking INEX Systems
Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
FQAS
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Using Structural Relationships for Focused XML Retrieval
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...
Georgina Ramírez, Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P...