Effective Retrieval of Structured Documents

Published 1 January 1994

Ross Wilkinson

DOI10.1007/978-1-4471-2099-5_32

Citations96

TL;DR

This work considers what information is needed to retrieve effectively and shows that knowledge of the structure of documents can lead to improved retrieval performance.

Abstract

Information systems usually retrieve whole documents as answers to queries. However, it may in some circumstances be more appropriate to retrieve parts of documents. We consider formulas for retrieving whole documents and parts of documents horn a large structured document collection. We consider what information is needed to retrieve effectively and show that knowledge of the structure of documents can lead to improved retrieval performance.

Keywords

Computer Science

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