Combining structured and unstructured information in a retrieval model for accessing legislation
Marie‐Francine Moens · 2005
Legislative sources are currently accessible via portal web sites. Users demand precise and exhaustive answers to their information queries. When legislation is drafted, it contains text-rich information that is increasingly marked with XML tags. The statute structure as signaled by XML markup can be exploited to more precisely answer free information queries. In this paper we report on several XML retrieval models that we explicitly designed for the retrieval of legislation. We show that the models provide more advanced access to the content of statutes.