The development of XML document retrieval using query weighting / Fauziah Mat Saat

Query is one of the processes involved in information retrieval in order to
obtain the retrieved documents. Query is importance in information retrieval
because it will affect the retrieved documents. The poor fomiulated queries will
lead to the poor document retrieval such as the retrieved document might be too
large or too small and no provision for ranking documents. There are many
techniques that we can use to process the user query and these different kinds
of techniques will give a different result for documents retrieval. One of the
techniques is using query weighting algorithm which is either the system will
calculate the weight of the importance words or the user itself will give a weight
to the importance words. This research is focus on developing an XML
documents retrieval using a query weighting algorithm in order to retrieve
FTMSK official letter. This technique has been successfully tested and it proves
that query weighting technique is very effective in XML document retrieval.
Keywords: Query Weighting, XML Documents Retrieval, Query.