Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements

Authors:
Birger Larsen;Anastasios Tombros;Saadia Malik
Affiliations:
Royal School of LIS, Copenhagen, Denmark;University of London, London, U.K.;University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Venue:
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking tasks. Our results suggest that searchers find the structural breakdown of documents useful when browsing within retrieved documents, and provide support for the usefulness of element retrieval in interactive settings.