2002 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval
Authors : Thomas Roelleke, Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Ian Ruthven, Stefan Quicker
Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Structured document retrieval aims at retrieving the document components that best satisfy a query, instead of merely retrieving pre-defined document units. This paper reports on an investigation of a tf -idf -acc approach, where tf and idf are the classical term frequency and inverse document frequency, and acc, a new parameter called accessibility, that captures the structure of documents. The tf -idf -acc approach is defined using a probabilistic relational algebra. To investigate the retrieval quality and estimate the acc values, we developed a method that automatically constructs diverse test collections of structured documents from a standard test collection, with which experiments were carried out. The analysis of the experiments provides estimates of the acc values.