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Summary: 1
Published In: 12th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), New Orleans, USA, 1996
Applying a Flexible OODBMS-IRS-Coupling to Structured Document Handling
Marc Volz, Karl Aberer, and Klemens Böhm
GMD-IPSI, Dolivostraße 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany, {volz, aberer, kboehm}@darmstadt.gmd.de
Abstract
In document management systems it is desirable to pro-
vide content-based access to documents going beyond regu-
lar expression search in addition to access based on struc-
tural characteristics or associated attributes. We present a
new approach for coupling OODBMSs (Object Oriented
Database Management Systems) and IRSs (Information Re-
trieval Systems) that provides enhanced flexibility and func-
tionality as compared to coupling approaches reported from
the literature. Our approach allows to decide freely to
which document collections, that are used as retrieval con-
text, document objects belong, which text contents they pro-
vide for retrieval and how they derive their associated re-
trieval values, either directly from the retrieval machine or
from the values of related objects. Especially, we show how
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