XER: A recommendation for XML element

Abstract

The strong point of the XML is that it allows document owners to describe their documents in their own format (structure and element names). There might be the same information has been describe in various ways. When user wants to search some information from XML documents, user might not retrieve all related results because of the difference of elements (tag names). To retrieve all related results, user needs to have queries for all possible elements. XML Element Recommendation (XER) is an idea to make XML documents easier for searching. It receives XML document as an input and compares that input with XML documents from database. It compares word similarity and semantic of each element. For semantic similarity of each element, it checks those elements to find which element (word) should be used by using word ranking (most common words). The output is a recommendation for each element of input XML document. © 2010 IEEE.