Generic and effective semi-structured keyword search
Arash Termehchy, Marianne Winslett · 2009
Current semi-structured keyword search and natural lan-guage query processing systems use ad hoc approaches to take advantage of structural information. Although intu-itive, they are ultimately ad hoc. We have developed the concept of coherency ranking based on the statistical prop-erties of data to rank the keyword search results. We demon-strate how the coherency ranking works for two real-world XML databases and show its advantages over the previously