A Labeling Methods for Keyword Search over Large XML Documents

Dong-Han Sun, Soo-Chan Hwang

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As XML documents are getting bigger and more complex, a keyword-based search method that does not require structural information is needed to search these large XML documents. In order to use this method, not only all keywords expressed as nodes in the XML document must be labeled for indexing but also structural information should be well represented. However, the existing labeling methods either have very simple information of XML documents for index or represent the structural information which is difficult to deal with the increase of XML documents" size. As the size of XML documents is getting larger, it causes either the poor performance of keyword search or the exponential increase of space usage. In this paper, we present the Repetitive Prime Labeling Scheme (RPLS) in order to improve the problem of the existing labeling methods for keyword-based search of large XML documents. This method is based on the existing prime number labeling method and allows a parent"s prime number to be used at a lower level repeatedly so that the number of prime numbers being generated can be reduced. Then, we show an experimental result of the comparison between our methods and the existing methods.