Snigdha Venkata

Publication Date

12-2005

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Guangming Xing

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Degree Program

Department of Computer Science

Degree Type

Master of Science

Abstract

The World Wide Web is a huge repository of information. Retrieval of desired information from such a source is a challenging task. Recommended by W3C, XML has become one of the most widely used document formats on the Web. Mining information from XML documents would need techniques that employ a measure of structural similarity between documents.

Tree edit distance would be a misleading measure of similarity for documents having similar structure but a large difference in size – the edit distance would be high owing to the size difference. Schema would be a much better representation of document structure rather than the document tree itself.

This thesis presents a novel approach that uses the edit distance between a document and schemata as a similarity measure to classify XML documents. Generalized schema rules are extracted based on certain grammatical inferences on the document tree to build a representative schema for each class. Using an efficient algorithm proposed by Xing et al. (2005) [1] for the computation of edit distance between an XML document and a schema, the XML documents are mapped to points or position vectors in a multi-dimensional space where a classification algorithm is applied to finally achieve document classification.

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

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