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Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval

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For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural "hints" to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an experiment to test this assumption. We present the unexpected result that structural hints in queries do not improve precision. An analysis of the topics and the judgments suggests that this is because users are particularly bad at giving structural hints.

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

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