XML Information Retrieval:An overview

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of XML Information Retrieval, highlighting its challenges, evolution of strategies, and existing gaps in effectively retrieving relevant information from XML-based web data.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive review of the development and limitations of XML IR techniques, identifying key gaps and future research directions.

Findings

XML IR faces unique challenges due to web data complexity.

Traditional IR strategies have been adapted for XML IR.

Current systems have limitations in complex information spaces.

Abstract

Locating and distilling the valuable relevant information continued to be the major challenges of Information Retrieval (IR) Systems owing to the explosive growth of online web information. These challenges can be considered the XML Information Retrieval challenges as XML has become a de facto standard over the Web. The research on XML IR starts with the classical IR strategies customized to XML IR. Later novel IR strategies specific to XML IR are evolved. Meanwhile literatures reveal development of the rapid and intelligent IR systems. Despite their success in their specified constrained domains, they have additional limitations in the complex information space. The effectiveness of IR systems is thus unsolved in satisfying the most. This article attemptsan overview of earlier efforts and the gaps in XML IR.