Towards adaptive information merging using selected XML fragments

  • Authors:
  • Ho-Lam Lau;Wilfred Ng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

As XML information proliferates on the Web, searching XML information via a search engine is crucial to the experience of both casual and experienced Web users. The returned XML fragments in the list is not directly usable, if not confusing, to the users, since in most cases the XML fragments extracted from a large XML repository are incomplete, scattered and redundant. Thus, it is necessary to reiterate the searching process based on user preferences in order to obtain more complete, detailed and usable results. In this paper, we propose a unifying framework which takes searching, merging and user preferences into account. We view search queries and fragment labeling as an input in an on-going searching process, in which the relevant XML fragments are merged into a concise form and returned to the user a ranked result list.