Information retrieval (IR) is a well-established research and development area. Document
formats such as SGML (Standard Generalised Mark-up Language) and XML (eXtensible …

Recently, a new community has started to emerge around the development of new
information research methods for searching and analyzing semi-structured and XML like …

Bayesian networks, which nowadays constitute the dominant approach for managing
probability within the field of Artificial Intelligence, have been applied to Information Retrieval …

La nature de sources d'information évolue, et les documents numériques traditionnels plats
ne contenant que du texte s' enrichissent d'information structurelle et multimédia. Cette …

Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest
XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a specific …

The widespread use of the extensible Markup Language (XML) on the Web and in Digital
Libraries brought about an explosion in the development of XML tools, including systems to …

New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7,
compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve …

In this paper we present an Information Retrieval System (IRS) which is able to work with
structured document collections. The model is based on the influence diagrams formalism: a …

Not only since the advent of XML, many applications call for e. cient structured document
retrieval, challenging both Information Retrieval (IR) and database (DB) research. Most …

As XML documents contain both content and structure information, taking advantage of the
document structure in the retrieval process can lead to better identify relevant information …