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Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI)

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Advances in XML Information Retrieval (INEX 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 3493))

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INEX has through the years provided two types of queries: Content-Only queries (CO) and Content-And-Structure queries (CAS). The CO language has not changed much, but the CAS language has been more problematic. For the CAS queries, the INEX 02 query language proved insufficient for specifying problems for INEX 03. This was addressed by using an extended version of XPath, which, in turn, proved too complex to use correctly. Recently, an INEX working group identified the minimal set of requirements for a suitable query language for future workshops. From this analysis a new IR query language NEXI is introduced for upcoming workshops.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Andrew Trotman

  2. Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

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  1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Norbert Fuhr

  2. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  3. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Saadia Malik

  4. Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17, H-1111, Budapest, Hungary

    Zoltán Szlávik

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Trotman, A., Sigurbjörnsson, B. (2005). Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI). In: Fuhr, N., Lalmas, M., Malik, S., Szlávik, Z. (eds) Advances in XML Information Retrieval. INEX 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424550_2

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