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The paper presents a model for typed, structured documents to improve the quality of retrieval. The document type determines the representative characteristics of the document content. Document content is indexed in order to provide structured and more precise queries. This paper presents a formalism for typed, structured documents and defines a suite of tools that operate on typed documents. In particular, we define document creation, document verification, and document translation. In addition the paper presents performance measurements for retrieval of structured documents, based on established recall and precision tests in information theory.
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Dharap, C., Bowman, C.M. (1997). Typed structured documents for information retrieval. In: Nicholas, C., Wood, D. (eds) Principles of Document Processing. PODP 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1293. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63620-X_60
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