ABSTRACT EXTIRP1, a novel XML retrieval system, aims at finding elements with exact
coverage by first dividing XML documents into a set of minimal XML fragments and then …

As part of the INEX 2006 Adhoc Track, we conducted a range of experiments with filtering
and clustering XML element retrieval results. Our basic retrieval engine retrieves arbitrary …

In this paper we describe our participation in the INEX 2009 ad-hoc track. We participated in
all four retrieval tasks (thorough, focused, relevant-in-context, best-in-context) and report …

XML retrieval is facing new challenges when applied to heterogeneous XML documents,
where next to nothing about the document structure can be taken for granted. We have …

In this paper we report on the retrieval approach taken by the VALORIA laboratory of the
University of South-Brittany while participating at INEX 2006 ad-hoc track with the SIRIUS …

Most of the work on XML query and search has stemmed from the publishing and database
communities, mostly for the needs of business applications. Recently, the Information …

We describe the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of
Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a …

Traditional document retrieval has shown to be a competitive approach in XML element
retrieval, which is counter-intuitive since the element retrieval task requests all and only …

This paper proposes a novel approach for retrieving large-scale XML data using the vector
space model. The vector space model is commonly used in the information retrieval …

On the 30th July 2005, a workshop on XML element retrieval methodology was held as part
of the Information Retrieval Festival at the University of Glasgow. Ten papers were …