Text-level Structure of Research Papers : Implications for Text-Based Information Processing Systems

Abstract

This paper discusses the implication of text-level structure for text-based information processing systems. In this paper, text-level structure of research papers is described with a set of typical functional components of research papers such as, background, purpose, methods, etc. and their order in a text. In order to suggest various applications, the experiments of retrieval and passage extraction were conducted using a manually structure-tagged fulltext database of research papers. As a result, we show that searching full-length texts using text-level structure achieved higher precision, compared to the searching without it. The paper also shows examples of extracted passages and suggests the application of text-level structure for text-based information systems, including passage extraction, browsing, and navigation within/across texts.

Conference

Publication date: April 1997

Publication date (Print): April 1997

Pages: 1-14

Affiliations

Research and Development Department, National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS)

Tokyo, Japan

who is now in Department of IR Theory, Royal School of Librarianship

Copenhagen, Denmark

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/IR1997.2

Copyright statement: © Noriko Kando. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 19th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research, Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 19th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research

Conference acronym: IR

Conference number: 19

Conference location: Aberdeen, Scotland

Conference date: 8-9 April 1997

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: IR Research

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing