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Structured document retrieval requires the ranking of document elements. Previous approaches either aggregate term weights or retrieval status values, or propose alternatives to idf, for example, ief (inverse element frequency). We propose and investigate in this paper a new approach: Context-specific idf, which is, in contrast to aggregation-based ranking functions, parameter-free.
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Wang, J., Roelleke, T. (2006). Context-Specific Frequencies and Discriminativeness for the Retrieval of Structured Documents. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_69
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