RRSi: Indexing XML data for proximity twig queries

Patrick K.L. Ng, Vincent To Yee Ng

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Abstract

Twig query pattern matching is a core operation in XML query processing. Indexing XML documents for twig query processing is of fundamental importance to supporting effective information retrieval. In practice, many XML documents on the web are heterogeneous and have their own formats; documents describing relevant information can possess different structures. Therefore some "user-interesting" documents having similar but non-exact structures against a user query are often missed out. In this paper, we propose the RRSi, a novel structural index designed for structure-based query lookup on heterogeneous sources of XML documents supporting proximate query answers. The index avoids the unnecessary processing of structurally irrelevant candidates that might show good content relevance. An optimized version of the index, oRRSi, is also developed to further reduce both space requirements and computational complexity. To our knowledge, these structural indexes are the first to support proximity twig queries on XML documents. The results of our preliminary experiments show that RRSi and oRRSi based query processing significantly outperform previously proposed techniques in XML repositories with structural heterogeneity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)193-216
Number of pages24
JournalKnowledge and Information Systems
Volume17
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Apr 2008

Keywords

  • Proximity query
  • Twig query
  • XML indexing
  • XML structural similarity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence

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