Structural Queries in Electronic Corpora

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Daniela Rus, James Allan

Published: 1998, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026Multim. Tools Appl. 1998EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: We present a methodology for automatically constructing structural hyperlinks in electronic technical corpora. A structural hyperlink connects components of a document that have specified structural properties with word-based content similarity. Our approach enables queries that may be posed in terms of keywords, as well as structural segments such as definitions, figures, etc.