Statistical Language Models for Intelligent XML Retrieval

The XML standards that are currently emerging have a number of characteristics that can also be found in database management systems, like schemas (DTDs and XML schema) and query languages (XPath and XQuery). Following this line of reasoning, an XML database might resemble traditional database systems. However, XML is more than a language to mark up data; it is also a language to mark up textual documents. In this chapter we specifically address XML databases for the storage of `document-centric' XML (as opposed to `data-centric' XML [42])