• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06c
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• pp.55-57
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• 2006

최근 XML 문서가 인터넷 기반의 애플리케이션 간의 자료 저장 및 교환을 위한 표준으로써 부상함에 따라 XML 문서의 저장 및 관리에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 XML 문서의 검색에 관련된 많은 연구들이 모든 XML 엘리먼트 경로에 대한 색인화로 인해 인덱스의 크기가 커지고 이에 비례하여 검색성능이 뜯어지는 문제를 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 개선하기 위해 엘리먼트 타일을 기반으로 전통적인 역색인 방법을 XML 문서에 맞게 확장하고, RDBMS에 기반하여 계층구조를 갖는 XML 문서들의 자료를 구조적 넘버링(Numbering) 방법의 인덱스로 설계 하였다. 인덱스 테이블들은 엘리먼트 타입의 정보를 담고 있는 엘리먼트 타입 테이블, XML문서의 경로를 가지고 있는 경로 테이블, 역색인으로 구성된 Term테이블. Term 경로를 나타내는 Term경로 테이블을 생성한다. 이전의 XML 인덱싱 기법에 관련된 연구들에서 보이는 XML 문서상의 모든 경로에 대한 표현을 간소화 시키고, 이를 통해 보다 좋은 검색 성능을 보이고자 하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.905-913
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• 2008

Many heterogeneous XML documents are being widely used with the increasing employment of XML, and the importance of data structure research for more efficient document management has been growing steadily. We propose a query processing technique which uses parent node information in a partitioned inverted index tree. The searching efficiency of these heterogeneous documents is greatly influenced by the number of query processing and the amount of target data sets in many ways. Therefore, considering these two factors is very important for designing a data structure. First, our technique stores parent node's information in an inverted index table. Then using this information, we can reduce the number of query processing by half. Also, the amount of target data sets can be lessoned by using partitioned inverted index table. Some XML documents collected from the Internet will be used to demonstrate the new method, and its high efficiency will be compared with some of the existing searching methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2004

XML 문서는 관계형 테이블과는 달리 문서의 구조가 매우 복잡하고 불규칙하여 부분적인 정보를 최대한 활용하는 전문 검색이 일반적인 구조적 검색보다 더 중요한 역할을 한다. XML 문서는 계층이 있으므로 계층을 사용하는 전문 검색 연산은 계층을 제공함으로써 검색 공간을 줄여서 검색의 정확성과 효율성을 훨씬 더 높일 수 있다. 전문 검색 연산을 효과적으로 지원하기 위한 방법으로는 역인덱스를 (inverted index) 사용하는 것이 가장 일반적인 방법이다. 지금까지의 전문 검색을 위한 XML 문서의 구조 정보를 표현, 저장하는 방법들은 문서의 내용이 변경되지 않는 정적 문서(static documents)만을 고려하여 왔다. 이 방법들은 문서가 동적으로 변화할 경우 저장된 문서의 구조 정보 중에서 많은 부분을 다시 표현해야 하는 비효율적인 면이 있다. 본 논문은 XML 문서의 동적인 변화를 지원하면서 동시에 복잡한 XML 전문 검색을 지원하기 위한 방법으로 경로 스트링을 사용하는 효율적인 역 인덱스 구축 기법을 제안하고 제안하는 방법이 복잡한 문서의 검색과 문서의 동적인 변화를 효율적으로 검색할 수 있음을 보인다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.3
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• pp.509-518
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• 2004

Recently there has been some efforts to add XML full-text retrievals and XML updates into new standardization of XML queries. XML full-text retrievals plays an important role in XML query languages. of like tables in relational model an XML document has complex and unstructured natures. We believe that when we try to get some information from unstructured XML documents a full-text retrieval query is much more convenient approach than a regular structured query XML update is another core function that an XML query have to have. In this paper we propose an inverted index to support XML updates and XML full-text queries in relational environment. Performance comparisons exhibit that our approach maintains a comparable size of inverted indexes and it supports many full-text retrieval functions very well. It also shows very stable retrieval performance especially for large size of XML documents. Foremost our approach handles XML updates efficiently by removing cascading effects.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.420-428
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• 2003

XML is a data-oriented language to represent all types of documents including web documents. By means of the advent of XML-based document generation tools and grow of proprietary XML documents using those tools and translation from legacy data to XML documents at an accelerating pace, we have been gotten a large amount of differently-structured XML documents. Therefore, it is more and more important to retrieve the right documents from the document set. But, previous works on XML have mainly focused on the storage and retrieval methods for a large XML document or XML documents had a same DTD. And, researches that supported the structural difference did not efficiently process path queries on the document set. To resolve the problem, we suggested a new inverted index mechanism using RDBMS and proved it outperformed the previous works. And especially, as it showed the higher efficiency in indirect containment relationship, we argues that the index structure is fit for the differently-structured XML document set.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.146-164
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• 2010

Due to an increasing volume of XML data, it is considered prudent to store XML data on an industry-strength database system instead of relying on a domain specific application or a file system. For shredded XML data stored in relational tables, however, it may not be straightforward to apply existing algorithms for twig query processing, since most of the algorithms require XML data to be accessed in a form of streams of elements grouped by their tags and sorted in a particular order. In order to support XML query processing within the common framework of relational database systems, we first propose several bitmap indexes and their strategies for supporting holistic twig joining on XML data stored in relational tables. Since bitmap indexes are well supported in most of the commercial and open-source database systems, the proposed bitmapped indexes and twig query processing strategies can be incorporated into relational query processing framework with more ease. The proposed query processing strategies are efficient in terms of both time and space, because the compressed bitmap indexes stay compressed during data access. In addition, we propose a hybrid index which computes twig query solutions with only bit-vectors, without accessing labeled XML elements stored in the relational tables.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.415-422
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• 2008

With the increasing use of XML, considerable research is being conducted on the XML document management systems for more efficient storage and searching of XML documents. Depending on the base systems, these researches can be classified into object-oriented DBMS (OODBMS) and relational DBMS (RDBMS). OODBMS-based systems are better suited to reflect the structure of XML-documents than RDBMS based ones. However, using an XML parser to map the contents of documents to relational tables is a better way to construct a stable and effective XML document management system. The proposed X-Binder system uses an RDBMS-based inverted index; this guarantees high searching speed but wastes considerable storage space. To avoid this, the proposed system incorporates a path combining module agent that combines paths with sibling relations, and stores them in a single row. Performance evaluation revealed that the proposed system reduces storage wastage and search time.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.5 s.101
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• pp.663-672
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• 2005

This Paper Proposes an approach that removes the redundancy of Path information and uses an inverted index, as an efficient way to store a large volume of XML documents and to retrieve wanted information from there. An XML document is decomposed into nodes based on its tree structure, and stored in relational tables according to the node type, with path information from the root to each node. The existing methods using path information store data for all element paths, which cause retrieval performance to be decreased with increased data volume. Our approach stores only data for leaf element path excluding internal element paths. As the inverted index is made by the leaf element path only, the number of posting lists by key words become smaller than those of the existing methods. For the storage and retrieval of U data, our approach doesn't require the XML schema information of XML documents and any extension of relational database. We demonstrate the better performance of on approach than the existing approaches within the scope of our experiment.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.540-552
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• 2004

We propose XIR-Linear, a novel method for processing partial match queries on large-scale heterogeneous XML documents using information retrieval (IR) techniques. XPath queries are written in path expressions on a tree structure representing an XML document. An XPath query in its major form is a partial match query. The objective of XIR-Linear is to efficiently support this type of queries for large-scale documents of heterogeneous schemas. XIR-Linear has its basis on the schema-level methods using relational tables and drastically improves their efficiency and scalability using an inverted index technique. The method indexes the labels in label paths as key words in texts, and allows for finding the label paths that match the queries far more efficiently than string match used in conventional methods. We demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of XIR-Linear by comparing it with XRel and XParent using XML documents crawled from the Internet. The results show that XIR-Linear is more efficient than both XRel and XParent by several orders of magnitude for linear path expressions as the number of XML documents increases.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.452-472
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• 2005

We propose XIR-Branching, a novel method for processing partial match queries on heterogeneous XML documents using information retrieval(IR) techniques and novel instance join techniques. A partial match query is defined as the one having the descendent-or-self axis '//' in its path expression. In its general form, a partial match query has branch predicates forming branching paths. The objective of XIR-Branching is to efficiently support this type of queries for large-scale documents of heterogeneous schemas. XIR-Branching has its basis on the conventional schema-level methods using relational tables(e.g., XRel, XParent, XIR-Linear[21]) and significantly improves their efficiency and scalability using two techniques: an inverted index technique and a novel prefix match join. The former supports linear path expressions as the method used in XIR-Linear[21]. The latter supports branching path expressions, and allows for finding the result nodes more efficiently than containment joins used in the conventional methods. XIR-Linear shows the efficiency for linear path expressions, but does not handle branching path expressions. However, we have to handle branching path expressions for querying more in detail and general. The paper presents a novel method for handling branching path expressions. XIR-Branching reduces a candidate set for a query as a schema-level method and then, efficiently finds a final result set by using a novel prefix match join as an instance-level method. We compare the efficiency and scalability of XIR-Branching with those of XRel and XParent using XML documents crawled from the Internet. The results show that XIR-Branching is more efficient than both XRel and XParent by several orders of magnitude for linear path expressions, and by several factors for branching path expressions.