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Structured Document Retrieval

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Synonyms

Focused retrieval; Passage retrieval; Querying semi-structured data; Structured text retrieval; XML retrieval

Definition

Structured document retrieval is concerned with the retrieval of document fragments. The structure of the document, whether explicitly provided by a mark-up language or derived, is exploited to determine the most relevant document fragments to return as answers to a given query. The identified most relevant document fragments can themselves be used to determine the most relevant documents to return as answers to the given query.

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The aim of this entry is to clarify different terminologies that have been used to refer to or are strongly related to structured retrieval and semi-structured data.

The term “structured document retrieval,” which was introduced in the early to mid 1990s in the information retrieval community, refers to “passage retrieval” and “structured text retrieval.” In passage retrieval, documents are first decomposed into passages...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Yahoo! Inc., London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. NTENT, USA - Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain - Univ. de Chile, Chile

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates

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  1. Mounia Lalmas
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Correspondence to Mounia Lalmas .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Kamps

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Lalmas, M., Baeza-Yates, R. (2018). Structured Document Retrieval. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_378

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