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A Graphical User Interface for Structured Document Retrieval

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2002)

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Structured document retrieval requires different user graphical interfaces from standard Information Retrieval. An Information Retrieval system dealing with structured documents has to enable a user to query, browse retrieved documents, provide query refinement and relevance feedback based not only on full documents, but also on specific document structural parts. In this paper, we present a new graphical user interface for structured document retrieval that provides the user with an intuitive and powerful set of tools for structured document searching, retrieved list navigation, and search refinement. We also present the results of a preliminary evaluation of the interface which highlights strengths and weaknesses of the current implementation and suggests directions of future work.

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  1. Dpto. Informática, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Jesús Vegas & Pablo de la Fuente

  2. Dept. Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Fabio Crestani

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 26 Richmond Street, G1 1XH, Glasgow, UK

    Fabio Crestani

  2. School of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Paisley, High Street, PA1 2BE, Paisley, UK

    Mark Girolami

  3. Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8RZ, Glasgow, UK

    Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen

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Vegas, J., de la Fuente, P., Crestani, F. (2002). A Graphical User Interface for Structured Document Retrieval. In: Crestani, F., Girolami, M., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45886-7_18

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