Articulating information needs in XML query languages

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-436

  Kamps, Jaap ^a   Marx, Maarten ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a   Sigurbjörnsson, Börkur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Full text XML querying; XML retrieval; XPath

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DOCUMENTS; XML RETRIEVAL;

XML;

EID: 33845514928     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1185877.1185879     Document Type: Article

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