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The Simplest XML Retrieval Baseline That Could Possibly Work

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Focused Access to XML Documents (INEX 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 4862))

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Five years of INEX have produced many competing XML element retrieval methods that make use of the document structure. So far, no clearly best method has been identified, and there is even no clear evidence what parts of the document structure can be used to improve retrieval quality. Little research has been done on simply using standard information retrieval techniques for XML retrieval. This paper aims at addressing this; it contains a detailed analysis of the BM25 similarity measure in this context, revealing that this can form a viable baseline method.

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Dopichaj, P. (2008). The Simplest XML Retrieval Baseline That Could Possibly Work. In: Fuhr, N., Kamps, J., Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (eds) Focused Access to XML Documents. INEX 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4_7

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