SAIL: Structure-aware indexing for effective and progressive top-k keyword search over XML documents

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3745-3762

  Li, Guoliang ^a   Li, Chen ^b   Feng, Jianhua ^a   Zhou, Lizhu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Keyword pair based ranking; Minimal cost trees; Relevance ranking; Schema aware dewey code; Structure aware indices; XML keyword search

Indexed keywords

KEYWORD-PAIR-BASED RANKING; MINIMAL-COST TREES; RELEVANCE RANKING; SCHEMA-AWARE DEWEY CODE; STRUCTURE-AWARE INDICES;

COSTS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; ONLINE SEARCHING;

XML;

EID: 68349157531     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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