A novel approach to querying the Web: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing (1997)
| Venue: | In ER97 - Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Multimedia Information Seeking |
| Citations: | 8 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lacroix97anovel,
author = {Zoé Lacroix and Arnaud Sahuguet and R. Chandrasekar and B. Srinivas},
title = {A novel approach to querying the Web: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing},
booktitle = {In ER97 - Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Multimedia Information Seeking},
year = {1997},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
We propose a new approach to querying the Web based on information retrieval (IR), browsing, as well as database techniques so as to provide maximum flexibility to the user. We present a model based on object representation where an identity does not correspond to a source HTML page but to a fragment of it. A fragment is identified by using the explicit structure provided by the HTML tags as well as the implicit structure extracted using IR techniques. We define a query language, PIQL, that is a simple algebra extended with restructuring primitives. Our language expresses browsing and restructuring based on IR techniques in a unified framework. All these components take part in the AKIRA system, currently under development. Keywords: views, data model, query language, information retrieval, agents 1 Introduction The Web invades our lives. While reading this short introduction it will have probably increased by several hundreds of pages making extra information available to everyone....
