Personalizing XML Text Search in PIMENT

01 January 2005

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We present PIMENT, that enables the idea that different users may obtain different answers to the same query. PIMENT is composed of two main modules: a profile repository that stores user profiles and a query customizer that rewrites user queries based on user profiles. Both queries and profiles are expressed in XQuery Full-Text, a full-text search extension to XQuery, which enables their interoperability and extensibility. Thus, PIMENT can be used with any partial or complete implementation of XQuery Full-Text.