DENOYER , Ludovic

This article is a report concerning the two years of the XML Mining track at INEX (2005 and 2006). We focus here on the classification and clustering XML documents. We detail these two tasks and the corpus used for this challenge and then present a summary of the different methods proposed by the participants. We last compare the results...

XML documents are becoming ubiquitous because of their rich and flexible format that can be used for a variety of applications. Giving the increasing size of XML collections as information sources, mining techniques that traditionally exist for text collections or databases need to be adapted and new methods to be invented to exploit the...