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Semantics And Result Disambiguation For Keyword Search On Tree Data, Cem Aksoy
Semantics And Result Disambiguation For Keyword Search On Tree Data, Cem Aksoy
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Keyword search is a popular technique for searching tree-structured data (e.g., XML, JSON) on the web because it frees the user from learning a complex query language and the structure of the data sources. However, the convenience of keyword search comes with drawbacks. The imprecision of the keyword queries usually results in a very large number of results of which only very few are relevant to the query. Multiple previous approaches have tried to address this problem. Some of them exploit structural and semantic properties of the tree data in order to filter out irrelevant results while others use a …