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Using small XML elements to support relevance

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Small XML elements are often estimated relevant by the retrieval model but they are not desirable retrieval units. This paper presents a generic model that exploits the information obtained from small elements. We identify relationships between small and relevant elements and use this linking information to reinforce the relevance of other elements before removing the small ones. Our experiments using the INEX testbed show the effectiveness of our approach.

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    SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    August 2006
    768 pages
    ISBN:1595933697
    DOI:10.1145/1148170
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    1. XML retrieval
    2. length normalization
    3. score propagation

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    • (2007)Effective use of semantic structure in XML retrievalProceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research10.5555/1763653.1763728(621-628)Online publication date: 2-Apr-2007
    • (2007)Improving Content-Oriented XML Retrieval by Exploiting Small ElementsProceedings of the 24th British National Conference on Databases10.1109/BNCOD.2007.12(68-74)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2007
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