… This paper elaborates on the notion of XML refinement by addressing what and how … for
XML artifacts. This work addresses the use of refinements as a modularisation technique for XML …

… XML retrieval [1]. The key question is how to appropriately generate a refined query based
on … We also show our approach to refine structural XML queries based on relevance feedback…

… apply Automatic Query Refinement (AQR) on top of our XML component … on top of our XML
component ranking algorithm. Assume we have an AQR algorithm that can be used to refine …

… or any intervention on user part. This is called content-aware XML keyword query refinement
as … refinement which further applies refinement rule(s) on the newly generated keywords. …

… show that these XML FD notions … XML FD notion that can fully capture XML data redundancies
with unambiguous semantics. Based on the new XML FD notion, we introduce a new XML …

… of refinement operations. Our experiments on XMark and NASA datasets indicate that
over-refinement … size inflation, so by avoiding this type of over-refinement, the M*(k)-index has size …

… In this section we develop a refinement of the incremental validation technique for
specialized DTDs described in the previous section. This results in maintenance and validation …

… XML elements or subgraphs. This search paradigm is intriguing for “closed” collections of XML
… prefer ranked lists of results based on relevance estimation. IR-style Web search engines, …

… The refinement problem of XPath queries can be stated as follows: Given a satisfiable … valid
XML document D, the evaluation of R on D returns a subset of the result of applying Q on D, …

… Apart from the core chapters on the XML standard itself, this book concentrates on related
standards developed by the W3C, and on the two most popular applications of this technology …