Information Retrieval Systems in XML Based Database – A review

Abstract: XML - the eXtensible Markup Language has emerged as a new standard for data representation and exchange over the Internet. It will become a universal format for data exchange on the Web and that in the near future we will find vast amounts of documents in XML format on the Web. As a result, it has become crucial to sort large collections of XML documents and retrieve relevant information from the collection efficiently and effectively. In our paper we are focusing on reliability of a software component. XML as a data interchange format helps in communicating across heterogeneous platform and hence establish a reliable communication with easy to maintain individual software components. We have a corpus of XML documents. The stop words are removed to remove the unimportant terms. The next step is stemming, after that parsing of the documents is done to generate the structural terms and thus structural terms are stored. Then searching of index structure is done to retrieve the documents based on some ranking criteria, in response to user query.

Keywords: Stopword, stemming , ranking, indexing