An effective method for finding best entry points in semi-structured documents

Eugen Popovici (1) , Pierre-François Marteau (1) , Gildas Ménier (1)

1 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient

Focused structured document retrieval employs the concept of best entry point (BEP), which is intended to provide optimal starting-point from which users can browse to relevant document components [4]. In this paper we describe and evaluate a method for finding BEPs in XML documents. Experiments conducted within the framework of INEX 2006 evaluation campaign on the Wikipedia XML collection [2] shown the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Mots clés: XML retrieval; Best entry points; Ranking

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]

Eugen Popovici, Pierre-François Marteau, Gildas Ménier. An effective method for finding best entry points in semi-structured documents. Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Jul 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.851 - 852, ⟨10.1145/1277741.1277941⟩. ⟨hal-00492979⟩