EVALUATING RELEVANCE OF RESULTS IN A SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA-BASE SYSTEM

摘要

A method for evaluating queries applied to semi-structured data, including, providing a query for the semi-structured data, the query includes indication of relevance ranking of sought results. The indication includes specification according to the structural positioning of words in the semi-structured data. The method further provides for evaluating the query vis-a-vis the semi-structured data in accordance with the indicated relevance ranking, and providing results, where each result includes a portion of the semi-structured data that meets the query.