Title
Efficient evaluation of partial match queries for XML documents using information retrieval techniques
Abstract
We propose XIR, a novel method for processing partial match queries on heterogeneous XML documents using information retrieval (IR) techniques. A partial match query is defined as the one having the descendent-or-self axis “//” in its path expression. In its general form, a partial match query has branch predicates forming branching paths. The objective of XIR is to efficiently support this type of queries for large-scale documents of heterogeneous schemas. XIR has its basis on the conventional schema-level methods using relational tables and significantly improves their efficiency using two techniques: an inverted index technique and a novel prefix match join. The former indexes the labels in label paths as keywords in texts, and allows for finding the label paths matching the queries more efficiently than string match used in the conventional methods. The latter supports branching path expressions, and allows for finding the result nodes more efficiently than containment joins used in the conventional methods. We compare the efficiency of XIR with those of XRel and XParent using XML documents crawled from the Internet. The results show that XIR is more efficient than both XRel and XParent by several orders of magnitude for linear path expressions, and by several factors for branching path expressions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11408079_11
DASFAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel method,linear path expression,conventional method,heterogeneous schema,information retrieval technique,path expression,conventional schema-level method,xml document,partial match query,label path,efficient evaluation,heterogeneous xml document,string matching,path expressions,information retrieval,inverted index
Inverted index,Joins,Program transformation,Information retrieval,XML,Partial evaluation,Computer science,Path expression,Document retrieval,String (computer science),Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3453
0302-9743
3-540-25334-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.47
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-Ho Park113716.79
Kyu-Young Whang22282716.85
Byung Suk Lee329368.57
Wook-Shin Han480557.85