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The Wikipedia XML documents are considered an interesting challenge to any XML retrieval system that is capable of indexing and retrieving XML without prior knowledge of the structure. Although the structure of the Wikipedia XML documents is highly irregular and thus unpredictable, EXTIRP manages to handle all the well-formed XML documents without problems. Whether the high flexibility of EXTIRP also implies high performance concerning the quality of IR has so far been a question without definite answers. The initial results do not confirm any positive answers, but instead, they tempt us to define some requirements for the XML documents that EXTIRP is expected to index. The most interesting question stemming from our results is about the line between high-quality XML markup which aids accurate IR and noisy “XML spam” that misleads flexible XML search engines.
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Lehtonen, M., Doucet, A. (2007). EXTIRP: Baseline Retrieval from Wikipedia. In: Fuhr, N., Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems. INEX 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_12
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