Integrating document and data retrieval based on XML

• Published in: The VLDB journal Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 53 - 83
• Main Authors: BREMER, Jan-Marco, GERTZ, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 2006
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Information systems. Data bases; Memory organisation. Data processing; Software; Tree structured method; Structural join; Database query; Integrated information retrieval; Very large databases; XML language; Information retrieval; Document retrieval; Query processing; Semantics; Semistructured data; Index structures; XML; Data retrieval; Data structure

For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In this paper, we introduce integrated information retrieval (IIR), an XML-based retrieval approach that closes this gap. We i...