In this paper, we discuss how to present the result of searching elements of any type from XML documents relevant to some information need (relevance-oriented search). As the resu...
Comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections, which consist of documents, queries and relevance assessments. Obtaining consistent and exhaustive relevance assessments ...
Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unrank...
A Data Warehouse (DW) can be used to integrate data from multiple distributed data sources. A DW can be seen as a set of materialized views that determine its schema and its conten...
With the consolidation of the Internet and other computer networks, the need of sophisticated systems to retrieve information increased enormously. In these networks, information ...
Rafael T. de Sousa Jr., Alexandre C. V. de Oliveir...