Overview of the second text retrieval conference (TREC-2)
TREC-2 Proceedings of the second conference on Text retrieval conference
Expressiveness of concept expressions in first-order description logics
Artificial Intelligence
A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML
PODS '01 Proceedings of the twentieth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Modal logic
Structural Properties of XPath Fragments
ICDT '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Theory
Searching XML documents via XML fragments
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Experiments in Automatic Phrase Indexing For Document Retrieval: A Comparison of Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Methods
Processing content-oriented XPath queries
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Semantic characterizations of navigational XPath
ACM SIGMOD Record
Efficient algorithms for processing XPath queries
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Term proximity scoring for keyword-based retrieval systems
ECIR'03 Proceedings of the 25th European conference on IR research
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A structure-oriented relevance feedback method for XML retrieval
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Articulating information needs in XML query languages
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness at INEX
ACM SIGIR Forum
Integrating Structure in the Probabilistic Model for Information Retrieval
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
A Comparison of Web Service Interface Similarity Measures
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on STAIRS 2006: Proceedings of the Third Starting AI Researchers' Symposium
Effective XML content and structure retrieval with relevance ranking
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
3se: a semi-structured search engine for heterogeneous data in graph model
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Query and update through XML views
DNIS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Databases in networked information systems
Clinical information retrieval using document and PICO structure
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Exploiting semantic tags in XML retrieval
INEX'09 Proceedings of the Focused retrieval and evaluation, and 8th international conference on Initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval
Updating XML views and querying XML views with update syntax
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
A survey on XML focussed component retrieval
Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)
Searching cultural heritage data: does structure help expert searchers?
RIAO '10 Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
Contextualization models for XML retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Why using structural hints in XML retrieval?
FQAS'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
3SEPIAS: A Semi-Structured Search Engine for Personal Information in dAtaspace System
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Selection fusion in semi-structured retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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Document-centric XML is a mixture of text and structure. With the increased availability of document-centric XML content comes a need for query facilities in which both structural constraints and constraints on the content of the documents can be expressed. How does the expressiveness of languages for querying XML documents help users to express their information needs? We address this question from both an experimental and a theoretical point of view. Our experimental analysis compares a structure-ignorant with a structure-aware retrieval approach using the test-suite of the 2004 edition of the INEX XML retrieval evaluation initiative. Theoretically, we create mathematical models of users' knowledge of a set of documents and define query languages which exactly fit these models. One of these languages corresponds to an XML version of fielded search, the other to the INEX query language. Our main findings are: First, while structure is used in varying degrees of complexity, over half of the queries can be expressed in a fielded-search like format which does not use the hierarchical structure of the documents. Second, structure is used as a search hint, and not a strict requirement, when judged against the underlying information need. Third, the use of structure in queries functions as a precision enhancing device.