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XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2006)

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We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of passage retrieval, as a form of document retrieval. A retrievable unit (an element chosen as defining suitable passages for retrieval) is a textual document in its own right, but may inherit information from the other parts of the same document. Again, this inheritance is defined in terms of the XML structure. All retrievable units are mapped onto a common field structure, and the ranking function is a standard document retrieval function with a suitable field weighting. A small experiment to demonstrate the idea, using INEX data, is described.

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  1. Microsoft Research, 7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK

    Stephen Robertson

  2. City University, UK

    Stephen Robertson & Wei Lu

  3. Center for Studies of Information Resources, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China

    Wei Lu

  4. Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK

    Andrew MacFarlane

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  1. The European Center for Counterterrorism Research and Studies Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. DISCO, University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Gabriella Pasi

  3. Computer Science Department, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo

  4. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  5. Research group PLIS: Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Robertson, S., Lu, W., MacFarlane, A. (2006). XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance. In: Larsen, H.L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_11

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