Bricks: The building blocks to tackle query formulation in structured document retrieval

Roelof Van Zwol, Jeroen Baas, Herre Van Oostendorp, Frans Wiering

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Abstract

Structured document retrieval focusses on the retrieval of relevant document fragments for a given information need that contains both structural and textual aspects. We focus here on the theory behind Bricks, a visual query formulation technique for structured document retrieval that aims at reducing the complexity of the query formulation process and required knowledge of the underlying document structure for the user, while maintaining full expression power, as offered by the NEXI query language for XML retrieval. In addition, we present the outcomes of a large scale usability experiment, which compared Bricks to a keyword-based and a NEXI-based interface. The results show that participants were more successful at completing a search assignments using Bricks. Furthermore, we observed that the participants were also able to successfully complete complex search assignments significantly faster, when using the Bricks interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages314-325
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540333479, 9783540333470
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2006 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Apr 10 2006Apr 12 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3936 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period04/10/0604/12/06

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