InexBib – Retrieving XML Elements Based on External Evidence
Alexander Krumpholz, David Hawking · 2006
Creating a scientific bibliography on a given topic is currently a task which requires a great deal of manual effort. We attempt to reduce this effort by developing a tool for automatically generating a bibliography from a collection of articles represented in XML. We evaluate the use of elements around the references as anchortexts to improve search results. We find that users of the tool prefer lists generated using anchortext over those generated from the bibliography entry only and that the preference is statistically significant. We tentatively find no significant preference for results generated using paragraph as opposed to sentence level anchortext, but note that this finding may result from lack of sophistication in resolving text including multiple references.