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In order to retrieve an item of information on the Web, many search engines have been proposed. They are rarely efficient at the first attempt: the display of results “forces” the user to navigate. In parallel, Web query languages have been developed to avoid these two sequential phases: research then navigation. In this context, the QIRI@D experimental platform, based on the functional programming language SgmlQL, enables both information retrieval and manipulation of distributed semi-structured documents published on a sub-network made up of the sites where QIRI@D is running. It is possible in an unique query to specify criteria to find a document, to filter it, to extract parts of it for building the result. An automatical enrichment of any published document is used to improve the search efficiency.
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Berti, L., Damoiseaux, J.L., Murisasco, E. (1998). Combining the Power of Query Languages and Search Engines for On-line Document and Information Retrieval : The QIRi@D Environment. In: Munson, E.V., Nicholas, C., Wood, D. (eds) Principles of Digital Document Processing. PODDP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49654-8_10
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