Integration of IR into an XML Database.
Cong Yu, Hong Qi, H. V. Jagadish · 2002
Structure matching has been the focus and strength of standard XML querying. However, textual content is still an essential component of XML data. It is therefore important to extend the standard XML database engine to allow for "Information Retrieval" style queries, namely, "keyword" based retrieval and "result ranking". In this paper, we describe our effort in integrating information retrieval techniques into the Timber XML database system being developed at the University of Michigan, and our participation in the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX).