XML-Retrieval - Seminar, Winter 2004/2005

Teaching personnel

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Fuhr

Tutor(s)

• Dipl.-Inform. Ingo Frommholz

Formalia

Targeted audience

• DAI Hauptstudium with 4 credit points : Bereich D (Unterstützende Informationssysteme)

Description

Durch die zunehmende Verbreitung von XML als Dokumentformat gewinnt auch die Entwicklung von entsprechenden Retrievalmethoden an Bedeutung. Im Rahmen dieses Seminar sollen neuere Ansätze aus diesem Bereich vorgestellt werden.

Notes

Terminplanung

• Vorbesprechung: Do. 28.10., 16:15 in LF 261
• Email mit Name, Matrikelnummer und gewähltem Thema an fuhr@uni-duisburg.de: bis 2.11.
• Thesen des Vortrags: bis 1.12.
• Gliederung des Vortrags: bis 3.1.
• Vortragsfolien: bis 24.1.
• Blockseminar: 1. oder 2. Woche nach Ende der Vorlesungszeit

Vortragsthemen

INEX

• Norbert Gövert, Gabriella Kazai: Overview of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX) 2002. In: Norbert Fuhr; Norbert Gövert; Gabriella Kazai; Mounia Lalmas (Hrsg.) (2003). INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). Proceedings of the First INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 8--11, 2002.
• Norbert Fuhr, Saadia Malik, Mounia Lalmas: Overview of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval. In: Norbert Fuhr; Mounia Lalmas; Saadia Malik (Hrsg.) (2004). INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). Proceedings of the Second INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 15--17, 2003.
• N. Fuhr; M. Lalmas (2004). Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop. SIGIR Forum 38(1)

XQuery Fulltext

• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases specification.
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text specification.

XIRQL

• N. Fuhr; K. Großjohann (2001). XIRQL: A Query Language for Information Retrieval in XML Documents. In Proc. ACM-SIGIR 2001. ACM, 2001
• N. Fuhr; K. Großjohann (2004). XIRQL: An XML Query Language Based on Information Retrieval Concepts. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 22

XXL (Marc Lechtenfeld)

A. Theobald, G. Weikum: The Index-based XXL Search Engine for Querying XML Data with Relevance Ranking. In: (EDBT) 2002, pp. 477-495, Berlin: Springer, 2002.

JuruXML

Yosi Mass, Matan Mandelbrod, Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Yoelle Maarek, Aya Soffer: JuruXML - an XML Retrieval System at INEX 02. In: INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). Proceedings of the First INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 8--11, 2002.

XRank (Zhihong Tang)

Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram: XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data table of contents San Diego, California, pp. 16 - 27. ACM, 2003.

ELIXIR

Chinenyanga, T.; Kushmerick, N. (2001) Expressive retrieval from XML documents, in SIGIR-2001 (ACM 24th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), New Orleans, USA.

Bayesian networks

Benjamin Piwowarski, Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari: Bayesian Networks and INEX 03. In: INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). Proceedings of the Second INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 15--17, 2003.

Language models

Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson: Length normalization in XML retrieval. Proc. ACM SIGIR 2004, pp 80-87. ACM, 2004.

ApproXQL (Roland Bela)

Schlieder, T.: 2002, `Schema-Driven Evaluation of Approximate Tree-Pattern Queries'. In: EDBT 2002. pp. 514-532.

XSearch (Andreas Wentz)

Cohen, S. et al.: 2003, `XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML'. In: VLDB 2003.

TexQuery (Christian Werseck)

S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery. WWW 2004.

RDF Query Languages: RQL

• Karvounarakis et al.: RQL: A Declarative Query Language for RDF. Proc. of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'02), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 7-11, 2002
• Christophides et al.: Declarative Languages for Querying Portal Catalogs. DELOS Workshop: Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, pages 115--120.

RDF Query Languages: SquishQL, TRIPLE

• Miller et al.: Three Implementations of SquishQL, a Simple RDF Query Language. International Semantic Web Conference, pages 423--435, 2002.
• Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker: TRIPLE - A Query, Inference, and Transformation Language for the Semantic Web. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sardinia, June 2002.

Semantisches Markup

• Handschuh et al.: Leveraging Metadata Creation for the Semantic Web with CREAM. Proc. of the Annual German Conference on AI (KI'2003), pp. 19--33.
• Handschuh et al.: S-CREAM - Semi-automatic CREAtion of Metadata. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW02), Seguenza, Spain.

Web Information Retrieval

Jacques Savoy: Information Retrieval on the Web - A new Paradigm. Upgrade 3(3), June 2002.