Synonyms
Structured Text Retrieval Tasks
Definition
Presenting structured text retrieval results refers to the fact that, in structured text retrieval, results are not independent and a judgment on their relevance needs to take their presentation into account. For example, HTML/XML/SGML documents contain a range of nested sub-trees that are fully contained in their ancestor elements. As a result, structured text retrieval should make explicit the assumptions on how the retrieval results are to be presented. Four of the main assumptions to be addressed are the following. First, the unit of retrieval assumption: is there a designated retrieval unit (such as the document or root node of the structured document) or can every sub-tree be retrieved in principle? Second, the overlap assumption: may retrieval results contain text or content already part of other retrieval results (such as a full article and one of its individual paragraphs)? Third, the contextassumption: can results from the...
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Recommended Reading
Clarke C., Kamps J., and Lalmas M. INEX 2006 retrieval task and result submission specification. In INEX 2006 Workshop Pre-Proceedings, 2006, pp. 381–388.
Clarke C.L.A., Kamps J., and Lalmas M. INEX 2007 retrieval task and result submission format. In Pre-Proceedings of INEX, 2007, pp. 445–453.
Focus. Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents – A Large Experimental Study, 2001.
Fuhr N. A probabilistic framework for vague queries and imprecise information in databases. In Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 1990, pp. 696–707.
Gövert N. and Kazai G. Overview of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX) 2002. In Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2003, pp. 1–17.
Hearst M.A. User interfaces and visualization, Chapter X. In Modern Information Retrieval. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1999, pp. 257–324.
INEX. INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2007. http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/.
Jones K.S. What’s the value of TREC – is there a gap to jump or a chasm to bridge? SIGIR Forum, 40(1):10–20, 2006.
Kazai G., Lalmas M., Gövert N., and Malik S. INEX’03 retrieval task and result submission specification. In Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2003, pp. 200–203.
Kazai G., Lalmas M., and Reid J. Construction of a test collection for the focussed retrieval of structured documents. In Proc. 25th European Conf. on IR Research, 2003, pp. 88–103.LNCS 2633.
Lalmas M. and Kazai G. INEX 2005 retrieval task and result submission specification. In Proc. 4th Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2005, pp. 385–390.
Lalmas M. and Malik S. INEX 2004 retrieval task and result submission specification. In Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2004, pp. 237–240.
Malik S., Klas C.-P., Fuhr N., Larsen B., and Tombros A. Designing a user interface for interactive retrieval of structured documents – lessons learned from the INEX interactive track. In Proc. 10th European Conf. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2006, pp. 291–302.
Salton G., Allan J., and Buckley C. Approaches to passage retrieval in full text information systems. In Proc. 16th Annual Int. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1993, pp. 49–58.
Sigurbjörnsson B. Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval. SIKS dissertation series 2006–2028, University of Amsterdam, 2006.
Szlávik Z., Tombros A., and Lalmas M. Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents. In Proc. 29th European Conf. on IR Research, 2007, pp. 456–467.
Tombros A., Larsen B., and Malik S. 2004, The interactive track at INEX 2004. In Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrival, pp. 410–423.LNCS 3493.
Trotman A., Geva S., and Kamps J. (eds.). In Proc. of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, 2007.
Trotman A., Pharo N., and Lehtonen M. XML-IR users and use cases. In Proc. 5th Int. Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2006, pp. 400–412.LNCS 4518.
Wilkinson R. Effective retrieval of structured documents. In Proc. 17th Annual Int. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1994, pp. 311–317.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this entry
Cite this entry
Kamps, J. (2009). Presenting Structured Text Retrieval Results. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_317
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_317
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-39940-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering