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Recently, a large number of XML documents are available on the Internet. This trend motivated many researchers to analyze them multi-dimensionally in the same way as relational data. In this paper, we propose a new framework for multidimensional analysis of XML documents, which we call XML-OLAP. We base XML-OLAP on XML warehouses where every fact data as well as dimension data are stored as XML documents. We build XML cubes from XML warehouses. We propose a new multidimensional expression language for XML cubes, which we call XML-MDX. XML-MDX statements target XML cubes and use XQuery expressions to designate the measure data. They specify text mining operators for aggregating text constituting the measure data. We evaluate XML-OLAP by applying it to a U.S. patent XML warehouse. We use XML-MDX queries, which demonstrate that XML-OLAP is effective for multi-dimensionally analyzing the U.S. patents.
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Park, BK., Han, H., Song, IY. (2005). XML-OLAP: A Multidimensional Analysis Framework for XML Warehouses. In: Tjoa, A.M., Trujillo, J. (eds) Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery. DaWaK 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11546849_4
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