Relevant contextual features in XML retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Georgina Ramírez;Arjen P. de Vries

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present and analyze results of a collaborative user study carried out by the Interactive Track at INEX 2005 [4]. The overall goal of the Interactive Track is to investigate the behavior of users when interacting with components of XML documents. In this paper we use the data collected from this user study to investigate dependencies between several contextual features and the structural characteristics of the relevant components (e.g. type and number of relevant elements). The three contextual features analyzed are the user's familiarity with the topic, the request's type, and the user's motivation to perform the search. The dependencies found indicate that XML retrieval systems should also benefit from the use of contextual information.